The metacognitions questionnaire (MCQ) measures individual differences in a selection of metacognitive beliefs, judgments and monitoring tendencies considered important in the metacognitive model of psychological disorders. The development and properties of a shortened 30-item version of the MCQ, the MCQ-30, are reported. Construct validity was evaluated by confirmatory and exploratory factor a...

The metacognitive model of obsessive-compulsive symptoms [Wells, A. (1997). Cognitive therapy of anxiety disorders: A practice manual and conceptual guide. Chichester, UK: Wiley] assigns a necessary causal role to metacognitive beliefs in the development of symptoms. The current study tested the model by evaluating the effects of experimentally manipulating such beliefs. A 2×2 factorial design ...

Case presentation: Male, 10 years old, referred to psychiatric care due aggressiveness, stereotyped movements, progressively started 6 months ago, related an outbreak of COVID-19 in the family - patient did not show symptoms. At consultation, mother reported that performed “twitching,” opisthotonic, oculogyric crises, and vocal intonations, addition obsessive movements relieve thoughts somethin...

BACKGROUND Several studies have identified discrete symptom dimensions in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), derived from factor analyses of the individual items or symptom categories of the Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale Symptom Checklist (YBOCS-SC). This study aims to extend previous work on the relationship between obsessions and compulsions by specifically including mental compulsi...

Abstract Background Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a common mental affecting millions of people. Its onset and peak are during late teens making university students priority target. Medical student perhaps at greater risk for developing OCD while corona COVID-19 expected to more exaggerate symptoms mainly with extra hygiene cleanliness practices. The aim the study was estimate prevalenc...

The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has produced a global mental health crisis and many individuals have obsessive thoughts worry about COVID-19 which may, both directly indirectly, relate to more general anxiety. This study explored anxiety sensitivity mindful awareness as mediators in the relationship between obsession College student participants (N = 172) completed Obsession with scale, Anx...

A major barrier to improving care effectiveness for mental health is a lack of consensus on outcomes measurement. The International Consortium Health Outcomes Measurement (ICHOM) has already developed consensus-based standard set anxiety and depression in adults (including the Patient Questionnaire-9, Generalised Anxiety Disorder 7-item Scale, WHO Disability Schedule). This Position Paper repor...

background chronic physical conditions in children significantly affect the quality of life in parents, especially mother. many people with chronic pulmonary conditions as well as their family members need psychiatric assistance. objectives the goal of the current study was to evaluate the mental status as well as substance abuse behavior of mothers of asthmatic children. patients and methods t...