Why are there only 2 scales on the OutcomeTracker system?
At the present time Outcome Tracker includes two reliable and validated scales: the Clinically Useful Depression Outcome Scale (CUDOS) and the Clinically Useful Anxiety Outcome Scale (CUXOS) (click here to read more about the CUDOS and CUXOS, including the cutoff scores indicating severity levels). Over time additional scales will be added to assess anger, drug and alcohol use problems, eating disorders, social phobia, agoraphobia, obsessive compulsive disorder, posttraumatic stress disorder, psychosis, mania/hypomania, pain, and somatic symptoms. Because it takes time (and money) to add scales to the OutcomeTracker system, we decided to make it available for use after the depression and anxiety scales, the two most frequently used scales in our practice, were loaded into the system. Moreover, the research on the reliability and validity of the CUDOS has already been published in peer-reviewed journals, and the first large validation study of the CUXOS is currently under review.
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