Published on 12, July, 2020
This took some digging to find! We're all so familiar with the AQ50, EQ, RAADS-R etc but I've not heard this one discussed much.
As far as I can tell, it was developed by Cardiff uni around 2015.
I haven't found an easy online version of it, but you can get the questions out of the paper here:
https://rd.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10803-015-2514-6
If you answer the questions in Table 1, you can work out a score.
If I'm interpreting the scoring correctly, you can work it out as follows:
Add up your responses according to the number 1,2,3 at the top of the columns. You should get a number between 20 and 60.
If you want to see where you fall on the scale as a total, convert this to a number between 1 and 3 by dividing by 20 [Edit - previously said 60 here, incorrectly], and then look at Table 4 which effectively says:
There are also instructions here:
https://research.ncl.ac.uk/cargo-ne/Repetitive Behaviour Questionnaire (RBQ-2)scoring final1.pdf
...on how to work out sub-scores for 4 different factors which I haven't yet looked at.
I scored myself 1.6 (raw score 32, taking care not to over inflate my report in the ASD direction) which is within one SD of the ASD mean and more than one SD away from the NT mean. So unless I've done something wrong, this is evidence of ASD-like RRBs that my NHS assessment hasn't (yet, hopefully!) found sufficient evidence for.
I'd be really interested to know other people's scores!
This could so easily be turned into an online version too....have I missed one I wonder?
I was thinking the same about scoring my childhood self
I’ve converted my score now to get a mean score of 2.1. Incidentally, if I answered the questionnaire for myself as a child I would have scored a lot higher!
I hope you’re going to share your results on this with your assessment centre?
You are quite correct. If you read the whole paper, they decided to collapse 3 and 4 into just one measurement of ‘3’ for ease of analysis
Responses 3 and 4 are combined so it still totals max of 60.
There is a discrepancy. In the research paper, there is only three possible outcomes in section 1, whereas the scoring chart shows an additional forth value (30 or more times daily (or twice an hour).
Thanks for sharing! I got 43, higher than expected..
Judging how much I did or didn't do certain things . Not 1 or 3 , but 1 or 2 or 2 or 3 .
What aspects did you find hard?
I found that hard to do. My assessment said that I had a " Very rigid set routine"
I've dont have much time to contemplate it but my score is 2.6... Apparently...
Here's a little graphic of normal curves based on the mean and SD that I made :-)
My total repetitive behaviours score is 40. I haven’t converted it or added up the separate sub scale scores yet.
Thanks for letting me know that - dunno what went wrong but I've fixed it I think
The link to the questionnaire is broken. I’ll try to find it on google later.
Thank you for sharing this. I shall have a look later and let you know my score.