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TASK: Design a digital questionnaire for this outcome measure
The most recent outcome measure we worked on at TherapyNotes was the Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale II (aka Y-BOCS II). This was a very lengthy assessment that didn't easily fit into TherapyNotes' typical template for outcome measures, so we needed to come up with some new patterns and designs for turning this paper questionnaire into a digital one.
Paper Form
Paper Form
As is the case with most, if not all, outcome measures, they all begin with a paper form, usually in a PDF or Word format. This paper form would serve as our "base" to build a digital questionnaire from. You can see the original paper form version of this questionnaire here.
Obsessions
Obsessions
Compulsions
Compulsions
Avoidance
Avoidance
Severity
Severity
Sample Assessment
Sample Assessment
The Y-BOCS II outcome measure required us to create some new patterns for our typical templates, since the questions on this assessment didn't work as nicely with our existing templates. For this assessment, clinicians would be reading off statements and examples to patients and selecting the correct checkbox for if it's a symptom that the patient is currently experiencing, has experienced in the past, or has never experienced at all. The clinician would go through all of these different categories - obsessions, compulsions, avoidance, and severity - with the patient, and after submitting the outcome measure, TherapyNotes would produce a set of results for the clinician to decipher.
You can see more of the Sample Assessment design here.
Sample Results
Sample Results
The results of an outcome measure are typically meant to show how a patient answered each question, and any corroborating score for that answer. The Y-BOCS II was a little different, though; so the results page had to be different.
The score was not derived from all of the patient's answers - instead, the score was derived only from the patient's answers in the severity category. These answers are the only ones that would actually be scored by the system, so those are the first results you see. Further down the page, we introduced collapsible containers that would house all of the patient's answers to the original questions for each category; that way, there would be a historical record that could be referenced later to see how the patient's answers may change over time.
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