CLINICAL PRESENTATION OF OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER IN KARBALA

Ahmed Jaafar Mohammed Al-Karaqully; Shakir Abdulrazzaq Awad Algburi; Saleh Ali Abdulrasool Alrabeeah

doi:10.31149/ijnps.v4i10.3018

Authors

Ahmed Jaafar Mohammed Al-Karaqully Iraqi Board of Psychiatry Iraqi Ministry of Health, Kerbala Health Directorate, Al-Hussain Rehabilitation Center, Holly Kerbala, Iraq.
Shakir Abdulrazzaq Awad Algburi Iraqi Ministry of Health, Kerbala Health Directorate, Imam Al-Hassan Al-Mujtaba Hospital, Holly Kerbala, Iraq.
Saleh Ali Abdulrasool Alrabeeah Iraqi Ministry of Health, Kerbala Health Directorate, Imam Al-Hassan Al-Mujtaba Hospital, Holly Kerbala, Iraq.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31149/ijnps.v4i10.3018

Keywords:

Obsessive-compulsive disorder, Contamination, Need for symmetry, Aggressive impulse, Sexual impulse

Abstract

The objectives of the study are to know the most frequently encountered symptoms of OCD in our psychiatric outpatient sample, the age of onset, time to first psychiatric consultation, and the correlation with the sociodemographic variables. The sample consisted of 70 patients of OCD who were interviewed at Al Hussain teaching hospital was diagnosed according to the Diagnostic & Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th edition (DSM-5), and to clarify the symptoms of OCD were clarified as obsessive-compulsive symptoms using the Yale-Brown Checklist (YBCL). The majority of patients have both obsessions & compulsions (87.2%); the most common types of obsessions were religious & contamination (62.9% and 58.6%, respectively), while rituals is the most common compulsion (67.2%). Most patients presented with a young age of onset (mean 17.9 years; males had an earlier onset of 16.4 years). Married patients were more than single patients (40% and 30%, respectively). The mean time between the first psychiatric consultation and the initial treatment was over 5 years (5.4 years). With minor differences, the pattern of symptoms with various contents in this sample was similar to that in other countries.

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