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| Research article summary (published 27 Feb 2002): |
Symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder in a sample of Iranian patients.
Full Abstract
BACKGROUND:
Characteristic features of the obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) occur with remarkable consistency in different cultural settings. The content of symptoms, however, seems to vary across cultures.
AIMS:
To examine the content of symptoms in a sample of OCD patients from Iran.
METHODS:
In a sample of 135 patients recruited from three treatment settings the prevalence of symptoms with different contents were ranked and compared across genders.
RESULTS:
Doubts and indecisiveness were the most common obsessions and washing the most common compulsion for the whole sample. Fears of impurity and contamination, obsessive thoughts about self-impurity and washing compulsions were more common in women, whereas blasphemous thoughts and orderliness compulsions were more common in men.
CONCLUSIONS:
With minor differences, the pattern of symptoms with various contents in this sample was similar to that in Western settings.
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Author information
Author/s: Ghassemzadeh, Habibollah (H); Mojtabai, Ramin (R); Khamseh, Akram (A); Ebrahimkhani, Nargess (N); Issazadegan, Arab-Ali (AA); Saif-Nobakht, Zahra (Z);
Affiliation: Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Iran. hghasemzadeh@yahoo.com
Journal and publication information
Publication Type: Journal Article
Journal: The International journal of social psychiatry (Int J Soc Psychiatry), published in England. (Language: eng)
Reference: 2002-Mar; vol 48 (issue 1) : pp 20-8
Dates: Created 2002/05/14; Completed 2002/10/03; Revised 2004/11/17;
PMID: 12008904, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)
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