Correlation between rumination and obsessive-compulsive disorder / 中华行为医学与脑科学杂志

ABSTRACT

Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) etiology has always been concerned. Some studies have found that biological and social psychological factors will affect the formation and development of OCD, and the cognitive and metacognitive model of OCD suggest that rumination may be a cognitive risk factor for OCD. Thus, clarifying the relationship between rumination and OCD will play an important role in exploring the etiology and treatment of OCD. Many literatures showed that there was a significant correlation between rumination and OCD, rumination could predict and maintain obsessive-compulsive symptoms, and OCD patients tended to use rumination strategies to reduce pain. In addition, there are common risk factors such as perfectionism and childhood trauma between rumination and OCD, and intervention training for rumination has also shown feasibility in the treatment of OCD. These findings suggest the possibility that rumination may influence OCD, but the causal relationship between the two needs to be further established. In the future, longitudinal studies on the relationship between rumination and OCD can be carried out in a larger sample to enrich and complement the etiology of OCD.