Defining Clinical Severity in Adults with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

The Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale (Y-BOCS) is the most commonly used instrument to assess the clinical severity of obsessive-compulsive symptoms. Treatment determinations are often based on Y-BOCS score thresholds. However, these benchmarks are not empirically based, which may result in non-evidence based treatment decisions. Accordingly, the present study sought to derive empirically-based benchmarks for defining obsessive-compulsive symptom severity.

Source: Comprehensive Psychiatry - August 14, 2015 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Eric A. Storch, Alessandro S. De Nadai, Maria Conceição do Rosário, Roseli G. Shavitt, Albina R. Torres, Ygor A. Ferrão, Euripedes C. Miguel, Adam B. Lewin, Leonardo F. Fontenelle Source Type: research