Y-BOCS
Medical abbreviation · Mental Health & Psychiatry
| Stands for | Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale |
|---|---|
| Categories | Medical |
Y-BOCS stands for Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale, a mental health & psychiatry abbreviation.
Clinician-rated scale that measures the severity of obsessions and compulsions, scoring time occupied, interference, distress, resistance and control for each, for a total of 0–40. It is the standard outcome measure in OCD trials.
Example: Y-BOCS 30 at baseline, 16 after 14 weeks of ERP and fluvoxamine.
Usage notes
Published by Wayne Goodman and colleagues in 1989. A version for children and adolescents is called the CY-BOCS. A reduction of about 35 percent is commonly used to define treatment response. Pronounced "Y-box".
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