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Published in final edited form as: J Obsessive Compuls Relat Disord. 2021 Nov 1;32:100693. doi: 10.1016/j.jocrd.2021.100693

Table 2.

Clinical Case Vignette Misidentification Rates

	N	Misidentification Rate n (%)	Most Common Misdiagnosis (n, %)

I. OCD Vignettes
Obsessions regarding...
Contamination	73	8 (11%)	Hypochondriasis (n=4, 6%)
Symmetry/Exactness	72	5 (7%)	Personality Disorder (n=2, 3%)
Aggression/Harm	69	29 (42%)	Anxiety Disorder (n=10, 15%)
Scrupulosity/Religion	75	26 (35%)	Personality Disorder (n=9, 12 %)
Sexual Obsessions	74	39 (53%)	Paraphilic Disorder (n=27, 37%)
II. Non-OCD Vignettes
Depression	70	6 (9%)	Bipolar Disorder (n=3, 4%)
Social Anxiety Disorder	72	19 (26%)	Personality Disorder (n=19, 8%)
Psychosis	70	20 (29%)	Personality Disorder (n=11, 16%)
Body Dysmorphic Disorder	71	5 (7%)	N/A

Note. Only 5 participants misdiagnosed the BDD vignette. Misdiagnoses were: anxiety (N = 1), personality disorder (N = 1), hypochondriasis (N = 1), OCD (N = 1) and “low self-esteem” (N = 1).