Goodman1989 - The Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale §

• Type:#article
• Year read:#read2022
• Subject: OCD Psychometrics Y-BOCS
• Bibtex: @goodman1989
• Bibliography: Goodman, W. K., Price, L. H., Rasmussen, S. A., Mazure, C., Delgado, P., Heninger, G. R., & Charney, D. S. (1989). The Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale. I. Development, Use, and Reliability. Arch. Gen. Psychiatry, 46(11), 1012–1016. https://doi.org/10.1001/archpsyc.1989.01810110048007

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Example citation §

The Y-BOCS has excellent interrater reliability (r = 0.98) and internal consistency (Cronbach’s alpha = 0.89) [@goodman1989].

Key takeaways §

• 4 raters and n = 40 patients with OCD
• Interrater-reliability for YBOCS total, r = 0.98
• Cronbach’s alpha = 0.89

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