Crown Crisp Experiential Index (CCEI)
Formerly known as Middlesex Hospital Questionnaire
Reference
Crown, S., & Crisp, A., H. (1966). A Short Clinical Diagnostic Self-rating Scale for Psychoneurotic Patients: The Middlesex Hospital Questionnaire. British Journal Psychiatry, 112, 917-923. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.112.490.917
List of questions
Question number | Question | Original 48-item version
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1 | Do you often feel upset for no obvious reason ? | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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2 | Do you have an unreasonable fear of being in enclosed spaces such as shops, lifts, etc.? | ✓ |
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3 | Do people ever say you are too conscientious ? | ✓ |
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4 | Are you troubled by dizziness or shortness of breath ? | ✓ | ✓ |
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5 | Can you think as quickly as you used to ? | ✓ | ✓ |
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6 | Are your opinions easily influenced ? | ✓ |
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7 | Have you felt as though you might faint ? | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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8 | Do you find yourself worrying about getting some incurable illness? | ✓ |
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9 | Do you think that "cleanliness is next to godliness"? | ✓ |
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10 | Do you often feel sick or have indigestion? | ✓ | ✓ |
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11 | Do you feel that life is too much effort? | ✓ | ✓ |
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12 | Have you, at any time in your life, enjoyed acting? | ✓ |
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13 | Do you feel uneasy and restless? | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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14 | Do you feel more relaxed indoors? | ✓ |
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15 | Do you find that silly or unreasonable thoughts keep recurring in your mind? | ✓ |
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16 | Do you sometimes feel tingling or pricking sensations in your body, arms or legs? | ✓ | ✓ |
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17 | Do you regret much of your past behaviour? | ✓ | ✓ |
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18 | Are you normally an excessively emotional person? | ✓ |
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19 | Do you sometimes feel really panicky? | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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20 | Do you feel uneasy travelling on buses or the Underground even if they are not crowded? | ✓ |
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21 | Are you happiest when you are working? | ✓ |
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22 | Has your appetite got less recently? | ✓ | ✓ |
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23 | Do you wake unusually early in the morning? | ✓ | ✓ |
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24 | Do you enjoy being the centre of attention? | ✓ |
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25 | Would you say you were a worrying person? | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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26 | Do you dislike going out alone? | ✓ |
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27 | Are you a perfectionist? | ✓ |
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28 | Do you feel unduly tired and exhausted? | ✓ | ✓ |
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29 | Do you experience long periods of sadness? | ✓ | ✓ |
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30 | Do you find that you take advantage of circumstances for your own ends? | ✓ |
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31 | Do you often feel "strung-up" side? | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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32 | Do you worry unduly when relatives are late coming home? | ✓ |
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33 | Do you have to check things you do to an unnecessary extent? | ✓ |
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34 | Can you get off to sleep alright at the moment? | ✓ | ✓ |
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35 | Do you have to make a special effort to face up to a crisis or difficulty? | ✓ | ✓ |
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36 | Do you often spend a lot of money on clothes? | ✓ |
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37 | Have you ever had the feeling you are "going to pieces"? | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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38 | Are you scared of heights? | ✓ |
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39 | Does it irritate you if your normal routine is disturbed? | ✓ |
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40 | Do you often suffer from excessive sweating or fluttering of the heart? | ✓ | ✓ |
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41 | Do you find yourself needing to cry? | ✓ | ✓ |
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42 | Do you enjoy dramatic situations? | ✓ |
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43 | Do you have bad dreams which upset you when you wake up? | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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44 | Do you feel panicky in crowds? | ✓ |
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45 | Do you find yourself worrying unreasonably about things that do not really matter? | ✓ |
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46 | Has your sexual interest altered? | ✓ |
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47 | Have you lost your ability to feel sympathy for other people? | ✓ | ✓ |
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48 | Do you sometimes find yourself posing or pretending? | ✓ |
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Use of this scale in CLOSER Discovery study questionnaires and datasets
Version | Study | Year | Questionnaire | Dataset |
23-item version | ALSPAC | 1990-1992 | ||
23-item version | ALSPAC | 1990-1992 | ||
23-item version | ALSPAC | 1991-1993 | ||
23-item version | ALSPAC | 1991-1993 | ||
23-item version | ALSPAC | 1992-1993 | ||
23-item version | ALSPAC | 1992-1993 | ||
23-item version | ALSPAC | 1993-1995 | ||
23-item version | ALSPAC | 1993-1995 | ||
23-item version | ALSPAC | 1993-1995 | ALSPAC Partners Health Events and Feelings Questionnaire Dataset | |
23-item version | ALSPAC | 1993-1995 | ALSPAC Your Health Events and Feelings Questionnaire Dataset | |
23-item version | ALSPAC | 1996-1999 | ||
23-item version | ALSPAC | 1996-1999 | ||
8-item version | ALSPAC | 1997-1999 | ||
8-item version | ALSPAC | 1997-1999 | ||
8-item version | ALSPAC | 2002-2004 | ||
8-item version | ALSPAC | 2002-2004 | ALSPAC Lifestyle and Health of Partner Questionnaire Dataset | |
4-item version | ALSPAC | 1999-2001 | ||
4-item version | ALSPAC | 1999-2001 |