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Symptoms of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder in a Sample of Iranian Patients

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  • Habibollah Ghassemzadeh

    (Tehran University of Medical Sciences; Roozbeh Hospital, Kargar Ave., Tehran 13185, Iran. Fax: 009821-549113 hghasemzadeh@yahoo.com)

  • Ramin Mojtabai

    (Columbia University, New York, USA)

  • Akram Khamseh

    (Ministry of Science, Research & Technology, Tehran, Iran)

  • Nargess Ebrahimkhani

    (Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran)

  • Arab-Ali Issazadegan

    (Oroumiyeh, Iran)

  • Zahra Saif-Nobakht

    (Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran)

Abstract

Background: Characteristic features of the obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) occur with remarkable consistency in different cultural settings. The content of symptoms, however, seems to vary across cultures. Aims: To examine the content of symptoms in a sample of OCD patients from Iran. Methods: In a sample of 135 patients recruited from three treatment settings the prevalence of symptoms with different contents were ranked and compared across genders. Results: Doubts and indecisiveness were the most common obsessions and washing the most common compulsion for the whole sample. Fears of impurity and contamination, obsessive thoughts about self-impurity and washing compulsions were more common in women, whereas blasphemous thoughts and orderliness compulsions were more common in men. Conclusions: With minor differences, the pattern of symptoms with various contents in this sample was similar to that in Western settings.

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  • Habibollah Ghassemzadeh & Ramin Mojtabai & Akram Khamseh & Nargess Ebrahimkhani & Arab-Ali Issazadegan & Zahra Saif-Nobakht, 2002. "Symptoms of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder in a Sample of Iranian Patients," International Journal of Social Psychiatry, , vol. 48(1), pages 20-28, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:socpsy:v:48:y:2002:i:1:p:20-28
    DOI: 10.1177/002076402128783055
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