the present study aimed to examine the efficacy of metacognitive therapy in treatment of patients with pure obsession.six patients suffering from pure obsession were selected using purposeful sampling method and were included after meeting the inclusion criteria of the study. patients were assessed using the structured clinical interview for dsm- iv axis i disorder - patient edition (scid- i/p)...

background chronic kidney disease (ckd) is a common medical condition among children and obsessive-compulsive disorder (ocd) is a frequent, chronic, costly, and disabling disorder among them. objectives the aim of this study was to investigate obsessive-compulsive disorder (ocd) in children with early stages of ckd, and to compare it with the occurrence of ocd in healthy children. patients and ...

objective: the psychometric properties and factor structure of the persian padua inventory washington state university revision (pi-wsur), a measure of obsessive- compulsive phenomena, was examined in a non-clinical sample of 348 iranian university students. method: the pi-wsur was translated into persian, and its back translation was controlled by the author inventory. a pilot study based on c...

objective: the present study was carried out to examine the efficacy of psychoneurotherapy (pnt) on reducing symptoms severity in treatment-naïve patients with obsessive-compulsive washing. this study evaluated a new form of psychotherapy based on neurobiological model of obsessive-compulsive disorder (ocd).  methods: the study was conducted as a quasi-experimental research. the statistical pop...

purpose and background: eating disorders and obsessive-compulsive disorder co-occur on many occasions. impulsivity is one of the prevalent features between the mentioned disorders. the purpose of this study is to compare the feature of impulsivity and its components in eating disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder and the normal individuals. methods and materials: this study carried on patien...

background and purpose: the age of the onset of obsessive-compulsive disorder (ocd) and its manifestation is now identified at childhood. in the present study, we aimed to epidemiologically assess ocd and its main determinants in school-age children. materials and methods: this cross-sectional study was performed on 600 consecutive schoolage children (7-12 years old) in primary schools at kerma...

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 (o...

high comorbidity between psychological disorders causes attention to the mechanisms responsible for this comorbidity and common cognitive factors involved in these disorders. these are known as transdiagniostic factors. similarity evidence and high comorbidity between generalized anxiety disorder (gad) and obsessive compulsive disorder (ocd) introduce them as neighboring disorders. the purpose ...

Obsessive compulsive disorder and bipolar affective disorder in the pediatric population show a bidirectional overlap. Few studies that have addressed this issue show that the prevalence of obsessive compulsive disorder in bipolar affective disorder patients ranges from 0 to 54%, and 1.85 to 36% of the obsessive compulsive disorder patients have a comorbid bipolar affective disorder. We report ...

Obsessive-compulsive disorder is a common chronic neuropsychiatric illness. Estimates of the lifetime prevalence rate of obsessive-compulsive disorder will vary depending on the methods used to gather the epidemiological data and the diagnostic criteria used to define obsessive-compulsive disorder. Estimates of the lifetime prevalence of obsessive-compulsive disorder have been reported to be to...