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Screening tools for body dysmorphic disorder in a cosmetic surgery setting: Screening Tools for BDD by Valerie Picavet; Lutgardis Gabriëls; Mark Jorissen; Peter W. Hellings is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.

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Objectives/Hypothesis: Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) is a well-established psychiatric disorder characterized by a marked, distressing, and impairing preoccupation with an imagined or slight defect in appearance. Despite the growing interest in and awareness of aesthetic surgeons for BDD, diagnosing BDD during a preoperative consultation remains challenging. This review provides an overview of the existing screening tools for BDD and assesses their quality and feasibility in an aesthetic surgery population. Study Design: Systematic review. Methods: An electronic bibliographic search was conducted to identify all screening tools for BDD in a cosmetic setting. We investigated their development and validation processes and investigated whether the screening tool had a predictive value on subjective outcomes after treatment. Results: We identified six different screening tools for BDD in a cosmetic setting. Only two of them were validated in a cosmetic dermatology setting: the Body Dysmorphic Disorder Questionnaire-Dermatology Version (BDDQ-DV) and the Dysmorphic Concern Questionnaire (DCQ). Outside the dermatologic surgery setting, no screening tools were validated. For the BDDQ-DV,

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Author
Valerie Picavet; Lutgardis Gabriëls; Mark Jorissen; Peter W. Hellings
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (John Wiley & Sons); Wiley-Blackwell; Wiley (ISSN 0023-852X)
Published
2011
Language
EN
Field
Medicine (Health Sciences)