Focus area: Cognitive fusion in ACT

Overview: The Cognitive Fusion Questionnaire is a brief self-report measure of cognitive fusion. It provides a psychometrically-sound process measure for assessing changes in cognitive fusion throughout the course of care and is particularly well-suited for use in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. 

Total number of items: Seven

Administration: Self-report

Standardized cadence: Weekly

Estimated completion time: Three to five minutes

Supported subscales: None

Age range: 18+

Scoring and interpretation: The CFQ does not provide a cutoff score. The composite score can be used to track changes in cognitive fusion across the course of treatment. 

Reliability/Validity: Across diverse samples and spanning > 1800 participants, the CFQ has been found to be psychometrically sound with high validity (e.g., Gillanders et al., 2014)

Additional information: The CFQ has been translated into many languages including French, Polish, Spanish, Turkish, and Italian, among others. For more information on the CFQ, please visit https://contextualscience.org/CFQ