Title of the Portuguese Version

Escala Obsessivo-compulsiva Pós-Parto (POCS)

Original Version

Lord, C.; Rieder, A.; Hall, G.B.C.; Soares, C.N.; Steiner, M. Piloting the perinatal obsessive-compulsive scale (POCS): Development and validation. J. Anxiety Disord. 2011, 25, 1079–1084.

Portuguese Version

Pereira, A. T., Araújo, A., Azevedo, J., Marques, C. C., Soares, M. J., Cabaços, C., Marques, M., Pereira, D., Pato, M., & Macedo, A. (2022) https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/19/17/10624

General Description

POCS was developed to apply specifically to the perinatal period; it has two versions: for pregnant and postpartum women. It includes items to assess perinatal-specific obsessions and compulsions, as well as a severity scale and an interference scale. POCS includes 19 thoughts (Section A) and 14 behaviors (Section B). To assess symptom severity it is rated the amount of time spent, interference, distress, resistance and control of the disclosed thoughts and behaviors (severity scale: ten questions with scores ranging from 0 to 4, with higher scores indicating greater symptom severity).

References

  • Pereira, A. T., Araújo, A., Azevedo, J., Marques, C. C., Soares, M. J., Cabaços, C., Marques, M., Pereira, D., Pato, M., & Macedo, A. (2022). The Postpartum Obsessive-Compulsive Scale: Psychometric, Operative and Epidemiologic Study in a Portuguese Sample. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(17), 1–17. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191710624

  • Lord, C.; Rieder, A.; Hall, G.B.C.; Soares, C.N.; Steiner, M. Piloting the perinatal obsessive-compulsive scale (POCS): Development and validation. J. Anxiety Disord. 2011, 25, 1079–1084.

Contacts

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