BACKGROUND Mental health professionals observed booming in prevalence of obsessive compulsive symptoms among children and adolescents. Our epidemiological study aims at estimating the prevalence of obsessive symptoms and obsessive compulsive disorder among secondary school students and, as a secondary research objective, to assess religious attitudes among those patients. MATERIALS The study ...

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) commonly affects males and can manifest with a range of urological symptoms directly linked to the content OCD, including urinary urgency, frequency, retention sexual dysfunction. Accurate recognition OCD in such cases is fundamental avoid misdiagnosis, risks patients associated untreated (including suicidal behaviour), unnecessary physical health investigati...

Objective Internet-delivered cognitive behavioural therapy (ICBT) is an effective treatment for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). However, little known about the characteristics of individuals who engage with this and whether they are comparable to those in face-to-face OCD. The aim current study was examine demographic clinical participants engaged a large open trial self-guided ICBT OCD co...

Treatment developments, brain imaging studies, and results of pharmacological research elicit revision related pathological theories to Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) new patterns. One the important alluring patterns under neurobiological approach corresponding pathology treatment obsessive-compulsive is animal models which are used in this disorder. Insomuch, many endeavors have been appl...

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is one of the most disabling mental disorders in world and there are different interventions treatment strategy for obsessive compulsive disorder. A recent technique that has been gaining ground within positive psychology Mindfulness, this shown promising results being used as a new resource adherence to OCD symptoms. The aim study was perform systematic review lit...

Background: Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is associated with heterogeneous and diverse symptoms. A diagnosis challenging when patients experience psychotic This study aimed to evaluate the pattern of symptoms in OCD. Methods: Using semi-structured clinical interviews, 185 meeting DSM-IV diagnostic criteria for OCD were selected. The Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale (Y-BOCS) Assessmen...

The spectrum of obsessive-compulsive disorders has received a great deal of theoretical attention, but there has been relatively little associated empirical research. The purpose of this study was to compare three groups of patients; those diagnosed with hypochondriasis (HC, a proposed spectrum condition), obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and those with both OCD and HC (OCD/HC). The results ...

ObjectiveObsessive-compulsive (OC) symptoms are common in the general population, but it is unclear whether subclinical OC and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) part of a neuroanatomical continuum. The goal this study was to investigate relation between subcortical cortical morphology population-based sample children.MethodThe included 2,551 participants, aged 9–12 years, from Generation R St...

While interest in the relationship between obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and obsessive compulsive personality disorder has increased, there are currently no studies that have examined the presence of obsessive compulsive personality traits (OCPTs) in youth. The current study sought to determine the latent factors and psychometric properties of a modified version of the Childhood Retrospec...

OBJECTIVE Compulsive hoarding and saving symptoms, found in many patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), are part of a discrete clinical syndrome that includes indecisiveness, disorganization, perfectionism, procrastination, and avoidance and has been associated with poor response to medications and cognitive behavior therapy. The authors sought to identify cerebral metabolic pattern...