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CNS Spectr ; 14(6): 315-23, 2009 Jun.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-19668122

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INTRODUCTION: Although obsessions and compulsions comprise the main features of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), many patients report that their compulsions are preceded by a sense of "incompleteness" or other unpleasant feelings such as premonitory urges or a need perform actions until feeling "just right." These manifestations have been characterized as Sensory Phenomena (SP). The current study presents initial psychometric data for a new scale designed to measure SP. METHODS: Seventy-six adult OCD subjects were probed twice. Patients were assessed with an open clinical interview (considered as the "gold standard") and with the following standardized instruments: Structured Clinical Interview for Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition Axis I Disorders, Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale, Dimensional Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale, Yale Global Tic Severity Scale, Beck Anxiety Inventory, and Beck Depression Inventory. RESULTS: SP were present in 51 OCD patients (67.1%). Tics were present in 16 (21.1%) of the overall sample. The presence of SP was significantly higher in early-onset OCD patients. There were no significant differences in the presence of SP according to comorbidity with tics or gender. The comparison between the results from the open clinical interviews and the University of São Paulo Sensory Phenomena Scale (USP-SPS) showed an excellent concordance between them, with no significant differences between interviewers. The inter-rater reliability between the expert raters for the USP-SPS was high, with K=.92. The Pearson correlation coefficient between the SP severity scores given by the two raters was .89. CONCLUSION: Preliminary results suggest that the USP-SPS is a valid and reliable instrument for assessing the presence and severity of SP in OCD subjects.


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Emotions/physiology , Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder/psychology , Perception/physiology , Psychometrics/methods , Psychometrics/standards , Sensation , Adult , Age of Onset , Brazil , Chi-Square Distribution , Female , Humans , Male , Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder/diagnosis , Psychiatric Status Rating Scales , Retrospective Studies , Universities , Young Adult
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Eur Psychiatry ; 23(3): 187-94, 2008 Apr.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-18329252

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PURPOSE: This study investigates the influence of age at onset of OCS on psychiatric comorbidities, and tries to establish a cut-off point for age at onset. METHODS: Three hundred and thirty OCD patients were consecutively recruited and interviewed using the following structured interviews: Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale; Yale Global Tic Severity Scale and the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV. Data were analyzed with regression and cluster analysis. RESULTS: Lower age at onset was associated with a higher probability of having comorbidity with tic, anxiety, somatoform, eating and impulse-control disorders. Longer illness duration was associated with lower chance of having tics. Female gender was associated with anxiety, eating and impulse-control disorders. Tic disorders were associated with anxiety disorders and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. No cut-off age at onset was found to clearly divide the sample in homogeneous subgroups. However, cluster analyses revealed that differences started to emerge at the age of 10 and were more pronounced at the age of 17, suggesting that these were the best cut-off points on this sample. CONCLUSIONS: Age at onset is associated with specific comorbidity patterns in OCD patients. More prominent differences are obtained when analyzing age at onset as an absolute value.


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Mental Disorders/epidemiology , Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder/epidemiology , Adult , Age of Onset , Anxiety Disorders/diagnosis , Anxiety Disorders/epidemiology , Anxiety Disorders/psychology , Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity/diagnosis , Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity/epidemiology , Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity/psychology , Brazil , Comorbidity , Cross-Sectional Studies , Disruptive, Impulse Control, and Conduct Disorders/diagnosis , Disruptive, Impulse Control, and Conduct Disorders/epidemiology , Disruptive, Impulse Control, and Conduct Disorders/psychology , Feeding and Eating Disorders/diagnosis , Feeding and Eating Disorders/epidemiology , Feeding and Eating Disorders/psychology , Female , Humans , Male , Mental Disorders/diagnosis , Mental Disorders/psychology , Middle Aged , Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder/diagnosis , Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder/psychology , Personality Assessment , Sex Factors , Somatoform Disorders/diagnosis , Somatoform Disorders/epidemiology , Somatoform Disorders/psychology , Tic Disorders/diagnosis , Tic Disorders/epidemiology , Tic Disorders/psychology
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