ArticleJournal of obsessive-compulsive and related disorders2018
The Brown Incompleteness Scale (BINCS): Measure development and initial evaluation.
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- The relationship between sensory phenomena and interoception across the obsessive-compulsive spectrum: a systematic review.BMC psychiatry · 2025Pooled it
- Non-just-right experiences are more closely related to OCD than tics in Tourette patients.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Core Motivations of Childhood Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: The Role of Harm Avoidance and Incompleteness.Child psychiatry and human development · 2021Article
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backgroundIn recent years, incompleteness has received increased clinical attention as a core motivation underlying obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders. Yet, assessment of incompleteness has relied almost exclusively on self-report and has assumed a unitary conceptualization of this phenomenon. Therefore, we sought to develop and validate a new multi-faceted clinician-administered measure of incompleteness. The Brown Incompleteness Scale (BINCS) consists of 21 items; each rated on a 5-point scale, with higher scores indicating a greater degree of incompleteness. The current study describes the measure's development and preliminary validation.
methodsThe scale was administered to 100 consecutive participants who were part of a longitudinal follow-up study of OCD. The reliability, validity, and factor analytic structure of the scale were evaluated.
resultsExploratory factor analysis supported a two-factor solution, which can best be described as representing both behavioral and sensory manifestations of incompleteness.
conclusionsThe BINCS demonstrated strong internal consistency as well as convergent and divergent validity. This clinician-administered scale will provide a more comprehensive clinical assessment of patients with incompleteness.
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