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. 2016 Jun:17:82-7.
doi: 10.1016/j.bodyim.2016.02.006. Epub 2016 Mar 11.

The Body Dysmorphic Disorder Symptom Scale: Development and preliminary validation of a self-report scale of symptom specific dysfunction

Sabine Wilhelm  1 , Jennifer L Greenberg  2 , Elizabeth Rosenfield  2 , Irina Kasarskis  2 , Aaron J Blashill  3
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The Body Dysmorphic Disorder Symptom Scale: Development and preliminary validation of a self-report scale of symptom specific dysfunction

Sabine Wilhelm et al. Body Image. 2016 Jun.

Abstract

The Body Dysmorphic Disorder Symptom Scale (BDD-SS) is a new self-report measure used to examine the severity of a wide variety of symptoms associated with body dysmorphic disorder (BDD). The BDD-SS was designed to differentiate, for each group of symptoms, the number of symptoms endorsed and their severity. This report evaluates and compares the psychometric characteristics of the BDD-SS in relation to other measures of BDD, body image, and depression in 99 adult participants diagnosed with BDD. Total scores of the BDD-SS showed good reliability and convergent validity and moderate discriminant validity. Analyses of the individual BDD-SS symptom groups confirmed the reliability of the checking, grooming, weight/shape, and cognition groups. The current findings indicate that the BDD-SS can be quickly administered and used to examine the severity of heterogeneous BDD symptoms for research and clinical purposes.

Keywords: Body dysmorphic disorder; Psychometric properties; Self-report; Symptom severity; Symptom subtypes.

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