Good news for allegedly bad studies. Assessment of psychometric properties may help to elucidate deception in online studies on OCD

Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 331-335

  Moritz, Steffen ^a   Van Quaquebeke, Niels ^b   Hauschildt, Marit ^a   Jelinek, Lena ^a   Gönner, Sascha ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b KÜHNE LOGISTICS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c Study Centre for Behavioural Medicine and Psychotherapy   (Germany)

Author keywords

Deception; Internet; OCD; Online studies; Simulation; Survey

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INTERNET; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE INVENTORY; ONLINE SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIABILITY; SAMPLE; SCORING SYSTEM; SELF REPORT QUESTIONNAIRE; SYMPTOM; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; VALIDITY; YALE BROWN OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE SCALE;

EID: 84867977772     PISSN: 22113649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jocrd.2012.07.001     Document Type: Article

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