The Children's Yale Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale (CY BOCS) is a widely used measure of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) symptom severity in youth.
Participants were 368 adults who participated regularly in sport/exercise and completed online measures of perfectionism, compulsive exercise and eating disorders.
Strength; the assessment of the Compulsive Exercise test and a more robust measure of eating psychopathology determined that compulsive exercise and eating psychopathology are associated with stress fracture risk.
We also included a question on Breakfast Skipping and a self-report measure of Childhood Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder (OCPD) traits (CHIRP), which are both risk factors for the development of EDs.
Black and White participants were given contamination items from two popular measures of obsessive-compulsive disorder, half prior to being primed about ethnic identity and half after being primed, via the administration of an ethnic identity measure.
None of the trials had any self-report outcome measures of obsessive-compulsive symptoms or quality of life thus making the conclusions less safe as blindness may have been compromised.
We only used the OCDUS scale as a measure of cocaine-related compulsivity but novel experimental tasks are now needed to quantify compulsive behaviour.
Compulsive checking behavior was identified by the presence of a significant difference compared with saline-treated control animals; all four measures needed to differ from controls for the claim of compulsive checking (Szechtman et al., 1998), and hence the group of these four measures was termed 'criteria measures' for compulsive checking.
Sixteen male subjects, eight CSB patients and eight non-patient controls, completed psychometric measures of impulsivity and compulsive sexual behavior, performed a behavioral task designed to assess impulse control (Go–No Go task), and underwent diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) procedures.
This measure is greatly reduced in quinpirole-sensitised rats showing compulsive checking, and has been proposed to index the third constitutive component of compulsive checking behavior, i.e. 'satiety' or rest after checking (Dvorkin et al., 2010).
