Topic summary
Self-report inventories
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Self-report inventory.
Use in Research
Self-report inventories are widely used in psychological research. These tools enable researchers to gather subjective data efficiently from large samples, making it possible to compare the response of diverse populations to psychotherapy and track symptom changes over time. For example, a study published in 2025 analyzed data from the Outcome Questionnaire 45 from 456 clients who took 5,917 sessions of low-fee online counseling at the Sentio Counseling Center and found "sessions where the therapist reviewed the client’s OQ score beforehand (rather than after hand) showed significantly larger symptom improvement by the next session than sessions without such a review" and therapists "who reviewed client OQ scores more frequently before (rather than after) therapy sessions achieved faster client symptom recovery across all clients."