Prevalence of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder in Psychiatric Patients
Keywords:
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Prevalence, Structured Clinical Interview for Diagnosis, Symptom Checklist.Abstract
To find the frequency of OCD and different types of obsessive and compulsive symptoms in psychiatric patients. A sample of 2608 psychiatric patients were approached through purposive sampling from two government and two private hospitals of Gujranwala and Gujrat cities during December, 2020 to May, 2021. A set of questionnaires was used for the study, comprising of Demographic Sheet; Screening Questionnaire; Diagnostic Questionnaire based on DSM-5 criteria of OCD; Yale Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale and Yale Brown Obsessive Compulsive Symptom Checklist. Psychiatric patients were screened for OCD symptoms and later they were examined for diagnostic status, symptoms types and its severity. Results indicated that 6.1% patients screened as vulnerable for OCD and 2.9% were diagnosed as suffering from OCD in this targeted psychiatric population. Mostly patients reported severe level of OCD (55.1%). Further, results also highlighted highest ratio of obsession relate to sexual content (5.1%) and compulsions related to Order (76.9%) as compared to other types of obsessions and compulsions in OCD patients. In context of gender, men reported highest scores in obsessions of aggression; sexual; hoarding; religious; symmetry; somatic and hoarding compulsion, whereas, contamination obsessions; cleaning; counting; checking; repeating and ordering compulsions were reported to be higher in women. The frequency of OCD in psychiatric population in Gujrat and Gujranwala is almost the same as in the other places around the globe. However, the types of obsessions and compulsions vary in relation to the gender of patients. Systematic and controlled studies needed to explore the other correlates of OCD.
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