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Acceptability Of Treatments And Services For Individuals With Hoarding Behaviors, Carolyn I. Rodriguez, Amanda Levinson, Sapana R. Patel, Kim Rottier, Jordana Zwerling, Susan Essock, Lee Shuer, Randy O. Frost, Helen Blair Simpson
Acceptability Of Treatments And Services For Individuals With Hoarding Behaviors, Carolyn I. Rodriguez, Amanda Levinson, Sapana R. Patel, Kim Rottier, Jordana Zwerling, Susan Essock, Lee Shuer, Randy O. Frost, Helen Blair Simpson
Psychology: Faculty Publications
Objective To explore the acceptability of currently available treatments and services for individuals who self-report hoarding behaviors. Method Between 10/2013 and 8/2014, participants were invited to complete an online survey that provided them descriptions of eleven treatments and services for hoarding behaviors and asked them to evaluate their acceptability using quantitative (0 [not at all acceptable]−10 [completely acceptable]) Likert scale ratings. The a priori definition of acceptability for a given resource was an average Likert scale score of six or greater. Two well-validated self-report measures assessed hoarding symptom severity: the Saving Inventory-Revised and the Clutter Image Rating Scale. Results Two …