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| Published: September 25, 2016
Symptom Dimensions and Insight in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Research Scholar, Department of Socio- & Social Work Patna University Patna. India
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Research Scholar, Department of Clinical Psychology CIP Ranchi. India
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Research Scholar, Department of Socio- & SW. Central University Himachal Pradesh India
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DIP: 18.01.191/20160304
DOI: 10.25215/0304.191
ABSTRACT
The present study was carried out with the intent of systematically examining insight and its relationship with specific clinical characteristics including symptom dimensions in Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). Study was conducted at the symptoms Central Institute of Psychiatry, Ranchi, with a 40 OCD patients, who were rated on YBOCS, D, YBOCS and BABS and were divided and analyzed in six symptom dimensions in OCD. Results revealed that the most common dimension was contamination (32.6%) whereas hoarding was least common (3.4%). Better insight correlated significantly with severity across all OCD dimensions except hoarding and sexual/religious dimensions. Significant difference in insight among the symptom dimensions in OCD was seen. Better insight for sexual and aggressive dimensions than for hoarding, symmetry, miscellaneous was observed.
This is an Open Access Research distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any Medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
© 2016, H Kumar, I Ali, Anamika, B Devi
Received: July 12, 2016; Revision Received: August 24, 2016; Accepted: September 25, 2016
Hemant Kumar @ hemantdev25@rediffmail.com
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ISSN 2348-5396
ISSN 2349-3429
18.01.191/20160304
10.25215/0304.191
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Published in Volume 03, Issue 4, July-September, 2016