Overview

Survey Doctor's DOCS form has 20 past-month prompts across four 0-to-20 dimensions and a 0-to-80 total. Its digital form paraphrases the source prompts and omits the official dimension descriptions and examples. The numeric structure matches, but this is not an exact DOCS reproduction. Current product policy withholds its unsupported legacy severity labels.

Same arithmetic, different response task.

What the source DOCS measures

The official DOCS form introduces four obsessive-compulsive symptom dimensions:

Contamination
Responsibility for harm or mistakes
Unacceptable thoughts
Symmetry or completeness

Each introduction describes the dimension and gives examples. Five questions then ask about time, avoidance, distress, interference, and difficulty resisting during the past month.

The 2010 development study evaluated that 20-item, four-dimension design across clinical and nonclinical samples. The descriptions matter because they define which experiences a person should consider before rating their burden.

Survey Doctor form boundary

Survey Doctor keeps four groups of five required prompts and the same 0-to-4 values. It does not reproduce the official dimension introductions. Its prompts and answer labels are also shortened or paraphrased.

Those changes can affect what a person remembers and how they rate time, avoidance, distress, interference, or control. A matching score range does not establish that the two forms are interchangeable.

Recall can shift.

Use this result only as a record from this digital form. Compare it with another result only when the same form, prompts, and scoring rules were used.

How scoring works

Each group contains five values from 0 to 4. The five values add to a dimension score from 0 to 20.

Dimension	Survey Doctor items	Range
Contamination	1-5	0-20
Responsibility	6-10	0-20
Unacceptable thoughts	11-15	0-20
Symmetry	16-20	0-20

Adding all four dimension scores produces the 0-to-80 total. Higher numbers mean more reported burden on this form. They do not identify a diagnosis or select care.

Four scored parts. One summed total.

Cutoffs and legacy labels

The development work reported total cutpoints of 21 when comparing the OCD group with a nonanxious group and 18 when comparing it with another-anxiety group. These are comparison-specific screening results. They are not four universal severity categories.

Survey Doctor's definition retains older equal-width labels at 0-20, 21-40, 41-60, and 61-80 for historical fidelity. Current result, report, and export paths withhold those labels because the reviewed sources do not support them. The numeric total and four dimensions remain available.

Numbers remain available. Labels do not.

Using the result

Review the four dimensions before the total. Two people can reach the same total through different symptom patterns, and the digital-form limitation applies to every dimension.

A score cannot show the cause of an experience, determine treatment, or prove that a change came from care. A low total also does not mean that help is unnecessary when symptoms take time or disrupt daily life.

For a plain-language guide to the numeric output, read what your DOCS score means.

The OCI-R is an 18-item OCD symptom questionnaire with six 0-to-12 subscales. Its dimensions and total are not convertible to DOCS scores.

DOCS: Dimensional Obsessive-Compulsive Scale

Survey Doctor’s DOCS form reports four 0-to-20 dimensions and a 0-to-80 total, but it is a paraphrased legacy implementation.