Recent advances in the behavioural measurement of obsessional illness. Difficulties common to these and other measures.
Research into the effect of treatment on phobic and obsessional disorders has been hampered by the need for agreed and acceptable criteria in clinical evaluation and therapeutic comparison. Methods of measurement now available, including two recently developed scales, are described.
D006801:Humans; D009771:Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis*; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales