…listen and share! The brief, anonymous survey is available at tinyurl.com/57U9Y3PM or you can email us at NationalOCDSurvey@bcm.edu. /4

…and to @colinwoodard.bsky.social for his pioneering work on the eleven distinct regions that define the United States, which we’ve relied on heavily for this study. As you'll hear in the episode, we are still seeking participants 18+ with OCD in South Florida OR southern Louisiana, so please /3

This study has been a real highlight in my career and after two full years of recruitment and 3,000+ participants, it's very gratifying to be able to share these findings! This study has truly taken a village and I’m so grateful to my study team at the @bcmstorchlab.bsky.social, my collaborators, /2

They are, so pure and uncomplicated. My boy Otis ❤️

As someone who just endured this agony, I’m wishing you the strength, clarity, and grace you need to get through. Some things are more important than balls and courts. So sorry you’re going through this

Huge shoutout to the massive multinational team who supported this work and to my co-authors, especially Matti Cervin for his statistical brilliance and Eric Storch for his leadership on this project and the Y-BOCS-II. Free access for 50 days: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

These benchmarks represent an upward shift of moderate and severity score ranges compared to the Y-BOCS. A lack of participants in the CGI category “among the most extremely ill” precluded our ability to provide more nuance in the “severe” range (eg, “extreme/debilitating OCD”) /5

Total Y-BOCS-II scores were compared against Clinical Global Impression-Severity scores (1-7). Suggested benchmarks were: 0-14 (non/subclinical), 15-21 (mild), 22-34 (moderate), and 35-50 (severe). These were similar across gender and age groups /4

We used a sample of 3,061 participants collected from 2 samples: the LATINO study, representing Latin American/Hispanic children and adults (7-89 years) from 12 countries and a holdout sample of 78 children and adults (15-78 years) from outpatient psychiatry clinics in China /3

Benchmarks for the Y-BOCS were recently updated (Cervin at el 2022) yet benchmarks had yet to be established for the Y-BOCS-II which has, among other changes, a higher total score severity ceiling (50 instead of 40) to better capture the most debilitating OCD cases. /2

It was a massive team effort and couldn’t have done it without you!

..collection ends for the National OCD Survey, I’ll be publishing our findings on the regional/sociocultural differences in OCD. Really neat stuff, I’m happy to share once it’s final!

Ah sorry to hear you won’t be there! Yes, I recently published a theoretical paper with @bfeinsteinphd.bsky.social introducing the cognitive behavioral-minority stress model and we have a quantitative paper under review testing it. Those relate to the sociocultural topic as well, and once data …