Severity and Dimensions of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Family Accommodation: OCD severity and Family Accommodation

ABSTRACT

Background and Objectives: Family accommodation (FA) refers to ways in which family members assistthe patient in the performance of rituals, compulsions, avoidance of anxiety provoking situations, ormodification of daily routines to assist a relative with obsessive-compulsive disorder. The purpose of thisstudy was to study the association between the family accommodation and dimensions of obsessivecompulsive disorder (OCD).Methods: The study was included 45patients and their family members, Yale brown Obsessive-Compulsivescale (YBOCS) was used to assess the severity of OCD in patients and Dimensional Yale brown ObsessiveCompulsive scale (DYBOCS) was used to identify the severity of different dimensions in OCD patientsfamily members were assessed on Family Accommodation Scale for Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder – SelfRated version (FAS-SR) for understanding accommodation level in family. A Pearson’s correlationcoefficient was used to evaluate the association between variables.Results: FA was found to be highly present in the family of patients with OCD. On the DYBOCS we foundthe dimension of cleaning and washing were prevalent and highly correlated with FA.Conclusion: The findings suggested that the family accommodation is very common in families of OCDpatients and strongly associated with symptom severity of few specific dimensions.