ArticleThe Journal of nervous and mental disease2013
Psychometric evaluation of the Brown Assessment of Beliefs Scale in body dysmorphic disorder.
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- Predictors and moderators of symptom change during cognitive-behavioral therapy or supportive psychotherapy for body dysmorphic disorder.Journal of affective disorders · 2021Trial
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- Long-term outcomes of smartphone-delivered cognitive behavior therapy for body dysmorphic disorder: A one-year naturalistic follow-up.Internet interventions · 2025Article
- Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale Modified for Body Dysmorphic Disorder: Factor Structure and Construct Validity of Subfactors.Journal of obsessive-compulsive and related disorders · 2024Article
- Clinical characteristics among sexual minority and heterosexual women with body dysmorphic disorder.Body image · 2024Article
- Measurement fidelity of clinical assessment methods in a global study on identifying reproducible brain signatures of obsessive-compulsive disorder.Neuropsychology · 2023Article
- Early response to cognitive behavioral therapy for body dysmorphic disorder as a predictor of outcomes.Journal of psychiatric research · 2022Article
- An Evaluation of the Body Dysmorphic Disorder Symptom Scale as a Measure of Treatment Response and Remission in Psychotherapy and Medication Trials.Behavior therapy · 2022Article
- Body Dysmorphic Disorder: Clinical Overview and Relationship to Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.Focus (American Psychiatric Publishing) · 2021Article
- Rates of remission, sustained remission, and recurrence in a randomized controlled trial of cognitive behavioral therapy versus supportive psychotherapy for body dysmorphic disorder.Depression and anxiety · 2021Article
- Mechanisms of Change in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Body Dysmorphic Disorder.Cognitive therapy and research · 2020Article
- Predictors of Response to Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Body Dysmorphic Disorder.Behavior therapy · 2019Article
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Abstract
The Brown Assessment of Beliefs Scale (BABS) is a widely used measure that assesses insight/delusionality-an important dimension of psychopathology-both dimensionally and categorically (e.g., delusional versus nondelusional). The BABS has been shown to have good psychometric properties in a number of disorders, but sample sizes were small. In the present study, 327 subjects with body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) were interviewed with the BABS to assess insight regarding appearance beliefs. Other measures were administered. Intraclass correlation coefficients demonstrated excellent interrater reliability and test-retest reliability; internal consistency was strong. Principal components factor analysis identified one factor accounting for 60% of the variance. Analyses with measures of severity of BDD, depressive symptoms, and general psychopathology indicated good discriminant validity. Among the treated subjects, the BABS was sensitive to change but not identical to improvement in symptom severity. These findings provide further evidence that the BABS is a reliable and valid measure of insight/delusionality.
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