ArticleBehaviour research and therapy2020
How well do hoarding research samples represent cases that rise to community attention?
Article in Behaviour research and therapy, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Patient Perspectives on What Alleviates Hoarding Disorder Symptoms and Improves Wellbeing: A Systematic Review of Qualitative Data.Clinical psychology & psychotherapyPooled it
- Case Report: "One Unhealth" approach on fatal consequences of a fire in an animal hoarded home.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2026Article
- Classification of hoarding and comorbid neuropsychiatric symptoms.Psychiatry research communications · 2025Article
- "Falling between the cracks": Investigating the competing challenges experienced by professionals working with people who hoard.PloS one · 2025Article
- Hoarding disorder: evidence and best practice in primary care.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2023Article
- Hoarding symptoms are associated with higher rates of disability than other medical and psychiatric disorders across multiple domains of functioning.BMC psychiatry · 2022Article
- Elevated levels of hoarding in ADHD: A special link with inattention.Journal of psychiatric research · 2022Article
- Hoarding Disorder: Development in Conceptualization, Intervention, and Evaluation.Focus (American Psychiatric Publishing) · 2021Article
- Examining subjective sleep quality in adults with hoarding disorder.Journal of psychiatric research · 2021Article
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Abstract
This study used archival data from three different research groups and case file data from three independent community organizations to explore how well research samples reflect cases of hoarding that come to community attention. Using data from 824 individuals with hoarding, we found that research volunteers differ from community clients in several ways: community clients are older, more likely to be male and less likely to be partnered; they have lower socio-economic status and are less likely to demonstrate good or fair insight regarding hoarding severity and consequences. The homes of community clients had greater clutter volume and were more likely to have problematic conditions in the home, including squalor and fire hazards or fire safety concerns. Clutter volume was a strong predictor of these conditions in the home, but demographic variables were not. Even after accounting for the influence of clutter volume, the homes of community-based clients were more likely to have squalor. These findings suggest limitations on the generalizability of research samples to hoarding as it is encountered by community agencies.
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