ICD® Clutter Quality of Life Scale
The Clutter Quality of Life Scale (CQLS) has been designed by the Institute for Challenging Disorganization® (ICD) to help people assess the personally felt impact that clutter has on their well-being, both for people helping themselves and for organizing professionals to help their clients.
The CQLS is designed to measure inward, or subjective, consequences of clutter from the individual’s perspective. As such, it provides an indirect assessment of a person’s well-being by measuring personally felt negative consequences of clutter in that person’s life across important life domains commonly associated with quality of life (QoL). The CQLS essentially measures personally felt impact of clutter on QoL across life domains, which can be quite different from 3rd party observation measures, such as ICD’s Clutter-Hoarding Scale (C-HS). Both tools can contribute to a full understanding of the impact of clutter on a person’s life.
For Professional Organizers
Professional organizers may find the CQLS useful in a number of ways.
- During the initial consultation, to gauge the impact of clutter on the client
- In conjunction with The Clutter-Hoarding Scale to build a fuller picture of the client’s situation
- Throughout the organizing process as a measure of progress
- At the end of the organizing process, or during maintenance, to determine if further organizational steps need to be taken
ICD Subscribers may use the form with their clients. The following pdfs and forms are designed to be printed and used with clients.
The ICD CQLS Client version is what clients will fill out.
The ICD CQLS Scoring and Description PO version is for the organizer to use.
Read it first to better understand how to administer and score the CQLS. It includes color-coded questions to help you more quickly identify areas of concern.
The ICD CQLS Scoring and Description Intro
For professional organizers. These are not color-coded but may be used if participants are interested in scoring the scale themselves.