Terms and conditions Use of rating scales If you use any rating scales, please be aware that decisions about diagnosis, severity of symptoms, and treatment remains with the person overseeing the patient's care. We cannot be responsible for any decisions being made by third parties and without express advice from the Advanced Interventions Service. No …
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Introduction The pandemic has had a dramatic effect on the whole of the NHS, but it has also affected the availability of services for OCD. Not only that, but the nature of the pandemic will have had effects on many people with OCD; particularly those with contamination obsessions and cleaning compulsions. In this article, I …
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Introduction People sometimes wonder how severe patients being seen by a specialist service are. The following is a description of the severity of symptoms that individuals seen by the AIS present with, based on a relatively large sample of patients seen over the last 14 years. Demographics The data come from 81 patients seen between …
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