Preliminary study of symptom dimensions in chinese patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder
10.3760/cma.j.issn.1674-6554.2009.08.020
- VernacularTitle:强迫症患者症状维度的初步研究
- Author:
Ying LI
;
Zeping XIAO
;
Yuan WANG
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Obsessive-compulsive disorder;
Symptom dimension;
Subtype
- From:
Chinese Journal of Behavioral Medicine and Brain Science
2009;18(8):726-728
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Objective To study the symptom dimensions of Chinese patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder(OCD). Methods Symptom checklist in expert versions of Dimensional Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compul-sive Scale (DY-BOCS) was used to assess the symptom dimensions of 139 OCD patients. Results Nearly half of the patients had one dimension (50.4%). The frequency of patients with two or three dimensions was 24.5% and 14.4%. Patients with four to seven dimensions were very few and the frequency were 5.8% ,3.6% ,0.7% and 0.7% ,respectively. The most common symptom dimensions were symmetry (67.6%), contamination (43.2%) and aggressive (31.7%). The frequency of patients with miscellaneous, somatic, sex and religious, hoarding di-mension were 18.7%, 11.5% , 10.8% ,8.6% ,respectively. The frequency of male patients with symmetry dimen-sion was higher than that of the female patients(75.8%/52.1%, P<0.01), and the frequency of female patients with contamination dimension was higher than that of male patients (56.3%/36.3%, P<0.05). There were no differences in other dimensions between male and female patients. The early-onset patients had a greater of symp-toms in the symmetry dimension than late-onset patients and there were no differences between these two groups in other dimensions (77.6% vs 60.5%, P<0.05 ) . Conclusion Preliminary data suggest that the symptom di-mension approach may aid in the identification of subtype of OCD.
