OBJECTIVE Recent studies have emphasized the important role of cognitive beliefs in etiology and maintenance of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). OCD has different subtypes, but the specific role of cognitive beliefs in OCD symptomatology is not clear. The aim of the current study was to determine whether the cognitive factors proposed by Obsessive Compulsive Cognitions Working Group (OCCWG)...

The study focuses on the adaptation into Spanish and on the validation of the Social Phobia Spectrum Self-Report (SHY-SR) and the Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Self-Report (OBS-SR). The questionnaires were designed to measure a broad range of subtle and atypical features related to social anxiety and obsessive-compulsive phenomenology, respectively. Sixty-two outpatients who met DSM-IV criteria...

Background and Objectives: Obsessive symptoms among children and adolescent age groups are increasing, an observation made by mental health professionals working with this age group. Our epidemiological study targeted secondary school students to estimate the prevalence of obsessive symptoms, obsessive compulsive disorder and their different obsessive compulsive contents. Methods: The study is ...

A substantial portion of schizophrenia patients with obsessive compulsive disorder fail to respond to regimen of antipsychotic and selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor. Herein, we report a schizophrenic patient who, after being switched from escitalopram to milnacipran, showed a rapid improvement of his debilitating OCD. A 23-year-old unemployed single man had been diagnosed with schizophreni...

objective: although treatments with demonstrated efficacy exist for obsessive-compulsive disorder (ocd) researches on the effectiveness of combined treatment versus psychotherapy or drug treatment are controversial. the aim of this study was to compare the efficacy of metacognitive therapy (mct), fluvoxamine and the combination of mct with fluvoxamine treatment in treating patients with ocd. me...

The relationship between self-reported social functioning, schizotypal traits, and obsessive-compulsive symptoms (OCS) was studied in a sample of 508 adolescents, of which 49.8% were male adolescents, with a mean age of 14.9 (SD, 1.6). The Schizotypal Personality Questionnaire-Brief, Maudsley Obsessive-Compulsive Inventory and Social Adaptation Self-evaluation Scale was administered. The result...