The Relationship between the Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Dimensions, Severity and Insight among the Adolescents: An Iranian Sample

The goal of the current study was to assess the relationship between obsessive-compulsive disorder dimensions and severity with insight in an adolescent’s population in Iran.

The research sample included 84 adolescents with OCD according to DSM-5. The participants completed materials of OCD Inventory - Child Version (OVI-CV), Children Depression Questionnaire (CDQ), Children’s Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale (YBOCS): Severity Rating and Child Assessment of Belief Scale (CABS). Research data were analyzed through descriptive statistics’ indices, Pearson Correlation, Separation Coefficient, and Multi-variant Regression, using SPSS.

The obtained results suggested a strong positive relationship between hoarding dimension and delusional insight. Also, severity, ordering and doubting/checking were significantly correlated with insight, while this result disappeared by controlling hoarding dimension via partial correlation. Moreover, adolescents with more symptoms of hoarding demonstrated a significantly higher score in OCI-CV, severity and delusional insight but not in the depression inventory.

Our findings consistent with prior findings suggest a non-significant relationship between OCD clinical dimensions and insight in adolescents.