Prevalence of Obsessive Compulsive Symptoms in Schizophrenic Patients Referred to Navab Safavi Infirmary During 2004-2005
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Background And Objective
Schizophrenia is a chronic disorder that characterized by disturbances in thought, feeling, affects, behavior, perception and communication skills. Co morbid conditions and disorders with schizophrenia play an important role in course and prognosis. Obsession and compulsion symptoms are disorders which noticeable percentages of patients are suffering from them and they affect the course and prognosis of disease. According to the importance of these accompanying disorders with Schizophrenia we aimed this study to find the prevalence of obsessive – compulsive symptoms in schizophrenic patients.
Materials And Methods
This is a descriptive study that included 214 known cases of schizophrenia which have been followed up at Navab–Safavi Clinic in Isfahan. Schizophrenic patients were diagnosed by DSM-IV criteria by psychiatrist and obsessive symptom by Yale-Brown based questionnaire. The collected data were analyzed by t-test and X2.
Results
Our results on 214 schizophrenic patients showed that 34% of patients had obsessive compulsive symptom. In women the percentage was 40.9 % and in men was 31.3%. (p<0.05)
Conclusion
These results shows that obsessive compulsive symptoms are common in schizophrenic patients which is an important point in the treatment of this disease.
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Persian
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Journal of Rafsanjan University Of Medical Sciences, Volume:6 Issue: 4, 2007
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265
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