Study on obsessive-compulsive symptoms and influencing factors in college students with left-behind experience / 中华疾病控制杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To understand the obsessive-compulsive symptoms (OCS) and relative influencing factors among college students with left-behind experience. Methods College students with left-behind experience were selected from three universities in Anhui Province. The Chinese Obsessive-Compulsive Inventory-Revised (OCI-R), Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSES), Self-Rating Depression Scale (SDS) and self-edited basic situation questionnaires were used to measure the OCS, self-esteem, depression and left-behind experience. Multivariate logistic regressions model was applied to examine the influential factors of OCS. Results A total of 2 291 college students with left-behind experience were investigated. The detection rate for OCS in college students with left-behind experience were 26.5%. Regarding the OCS in college students with left-behind experience, significant differences were found in the following aspects frequency of meeting with parents, parenting style, conflicts with caregivers, smoking and drinking (all P<0.05). Logistic regression analysis showed that caregiver adopts strict parenting style (OR=1.300, 95%CI1.025-1.649,P=0.030), indulgent parenting style (OR=1.372, 95%CI1.017-1.852, P=0.038), smoking (OR=1.982, 95%CI1.305-3.011, P=0.001), depressive symptoms (OR=2.423, 95%CI1.954-3.005, P<0.001), medium self-esteem (OR=0.604, 95%CI0.481-0.759, P<0.001) and high self-esteem (OR=0.488, 95%CI0.362-0.659, P<0.001) were influencing factors of OCS. Conclusions The prevalence rate of OCS among college students with left-behind experience is high. Some interventions should be taken to reduce the OCS among college students with left-behind experience.