TY - JOUR T1 - COVID-19 Pandemic and the Questionable Validity of Obsessive-Compulsive Questionnaires TT - JF - PCP JO - PCP VL - 10 IS - 4 UR - http://jpcp.uswr.ac.ir/article-1-794-en.html Y1 - 2022 SP - 275 EP - 278 KW - Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder KW - Contamination fear KW - Questionnaire KW - Validity KW - COVID-19 N2 - The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted all aspects of our lives and even the scientific fields. Most of the COVID-19 preventative strategies, such as basic hygiene, are similar to concerns of patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder, especially those with contamination fears. The obsessive-compulsive (OC) questionnaires typically have several items about basic hygiene. The contamination/cleaning/washing subscales of all well-known OC questionnaires were inspected in terms of their similarity to the COVID-19 preventative strategies. In this paper, I discussed the way this similarity may threaten the validity of OC questionnaires along with the potential solutions. M3 10.32598/jpcp.10.4.804.1 ER -