Clinical features of psychiatric inpatients with obsessive compulsive disorder
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Purpose: The aim of study as to determine the clinical and sociodemographic charecteristics of the inpatients admitted in Cukurova University Faculty of Medicine Department of Psychiatry and were hospitalized with the diagnosis of obsessive-compulsive disorder between the years 2006-2015. Patients were grouped according to the gender, age of onset and the family history of psychiatric disorders and these groups were compared.
Material and Methods: Patients who had been diagnosed with obsessive compulsive disorder according to DSM IV TR and were hospitalized in Cukurova University Faculty of Medicine Balcalı Hospital Department of Psychiatry between 01 January 2006-31 December 2015. Data were obtained from hospital records of patients. Sociodemographic and clinical data form was filled by scanning previous patient files.
Results: 41 of the patients were female (57,7%) and 30 of them were male (42,3%). Mean age of patients was 25±10,04; first treatment age was 27,75±9,19 and mean duration of untreated illness was 32,82±48,06 months. There was a significant difference in patients, when first treatment age and mean duration of untreated illness were examined by gender. In patients with family history of obsessive-compulsive disorder, the mean duration of untreated illness was higher.
Conclusion: In the light of the findings, some important
differences were found between patient groups in sociodemographic, clinical
characteristics and primary sympthoms in obsessive-compulsive disorder. The
study which determined wider and homogeneous distribution samples in this
subject and at same time meeting patients and their families can contribute to
identify disease’s clinical features more detailed.
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