Florida Obsessive-Compulsive Inventory (FOCI)

Florida Obsessive-Compulsive Inventory (FOCI)

Your Name:

Date: Apr 25, 2024

Email Address:

General Instructions: The questions below are designed to help health professionals evaluate anxiety symptoms. Keep in mind, a high score on this questionnaire does not necessarily mean you have an anxiety disorder — only an evaluation by a health professional can make this determination. Answer these questions as accurately as you can.

PART A Instructions: Please check YES or NO for the following questions, based on your experience in the past MONTH:

Have you been bothered by unpleasant thoughts or images that repeatedly enter your mind, such as:

Concerns with contamination (dirt, germs, chemicals, radiation) or acquiring a serious illness such as AIDS?

Yes

Overconcern with keeping objects (clothing, tools, etc) in perfect order or arranged exactly?

Yes

Images of death or other horrible events?

Yes

Personally unacceptable religious or sexual thoughts?

Yes

Have you worried a lot about terrible things happening, such as:

Fire, burglary or flooding of the house?

Yes

Accidentally hitting a pedestrian with your car or letting it roll down a hill?

Yes

Spreading an illness (giving someone AIDS)?

Yes

Losing something valuable?

Yes

Harm coming to a loved one because you weren't careful enough?

Yes

Have you worried about acting on an unwanted and senseless urge or impulse, such as:

Physically harming a loved one, pushing a stranger in front of a bus, steering your car into oncoming traffic; inappropriate sexual contact; or poisoning dinner guests?

Yes

Have you felt driven to perform certain acts over and over again, such as:

Excessive or ritualized washing, cleaning or grooming?

Yes

Checking light switches, water faucets, the stove, door locks or the emergency brake?

Yes

Counting, arranging; evening-up behaviors (making sure socks are at same height)?

Yes

Collecting useless objects or inspecting the garbage before it is thrown out?

Yes

Repeating routine actions (in/out of chair, going through doorway, relighting cigarette) a certain number of times or until it feels just right?

Yes

Needing to touch objects or people?

Yes

Unnecessary rereading or rewriting; reopening envelopes before they are mailed?

Yes

Examining your body for signs of illness?

Yes

Avoiding colors (“red” means blood), numbers (“13” is unlucky) or names (those that start with “D” signify death) that are associated with dreaded events or unpleasant thoughts?

Yes

Needing to “confess” or repeatedly asking for reassurance that you said or did something correctly?

Yes

If you answered YES to one or more of these questions, please continue with Part B.

PART B Instructions: The following questions refer to the repeated thoughts, images, urges or behaviors identified in Part A. Consider your experience during the past 30 days when selecting an answer.

Click the most appropriate number from 0 to 4.

1. On average, how much time is occupied by these thoughts or behaviors each day?

0	1	2	3	4
None	Mild (less than 1 hour)	Moderate (1 to 3 hours)	Severe (3 to 8 hours)	Extreme (more than 8 hours)

2. How much distress do they cause you?

0	1	2	3	4
None	Mild	Moderate	Severe	Extreme (disabling)

3. How hard is it for you to control them?

0	1	2	3	4
Complete control	Much control	Moderate control	Little control	No control

4. How much do they cause you to avoid doing anything, going anyplace or
being with anyone?

0	1	2	3	4
No avoidance	Occasional avoidance	Moderate avoidance	Frequent and extensive avoidance	Extreme avoidance (house-bound)

5. How much do they interfere with school, work or your social or family life?

0	1	2	3	4
None	Slight interference	Definitely interferes with functioning	Much interference	Extreme interference (disabling)

Keep in mind, a high score on this questionnaire does not necessarily mean you have an anxiety disorder – only an evaluation by a health professional can make this determination.

© Wayne K. Goodman , MD , 1994.