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Children's Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale

The Children's Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale (CY-BOCS) is a 10-item clinician-administered semi-structured interview for assessing obsessive-compulsive symptoms in children and adolescents ages 6–17 years. Developed by Scahill, Riddle, and colleagues in 1997 as a child adaptation of the adult Y-BOCS, the CY-BOCS quantifies severity of obsessions and compulsions, insight, resistance, and functional impact. It is the gold-standard outcome measure in pediatric OCD research and clinical practice for diagnosis, severity rating, and treatment monitoring.

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Children's Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale (CY-BOCS)
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  • Scahill, L., Riddle, M. A., McSwiggin-Hardin, M., Ort, S. I., King, R. A., Goodman, W. K., . . . Leckman, J. F. (1997). Children's Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale: Reliability and validity. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 36(6), 844–853. · DOI 10.1097/00004583-199706000-00023
  • Goodman, W. K., Price, L. H., Rasmussen, S. A., Mazure, C., Fleischmann, R. L., Hill, C. L., . . . Charney, D. S. (1989). The Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale: Development, use, and reliability. Archives of General Psychiatry, 46(11), 1006–1011. · DOI 10.1001/archpsyc.1989.01810110048007
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