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. 2021 Feb 17;8(2):e26715. doi: 10.2196/26715

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©Benjamin Kaveladze, Katherine Chang, Jedidiah Siev, Stephen M Schueller. Originally published in JMIR Mental Health (http://mental.jmir.org), 17.02.2021.

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Changes in obsessive-compulsive disorder symptom severity across dimensions evaluated among only those participants with clinically elevated symptoms for a given dimension of obsessive-compulsive disorder, as defined by the Dimensional Obsessive-Compulsive Scale. We considered participants to have clinically elevated symptoms for a given symptom dimension if they scored an average score of 2 (range 0-4) across each item in that symptom dimension, which corresponds to moderate symptoms. White diamonds correspond to sample means. Participants indicated the extents to which their symptoms across the four dimensions of obsessive-compulsive disorder (“unacceptable thoughts,” “symmetry and completeness,” “responsibility for harm,” and “contamination”) had changed since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, with scores ranging from −3 (much worse) to 3 (much better).