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

Habibollah Ghassemzadeh, Ramin Mojtabai, Akram Khamseh, Nargess Ebrahimkhani, Arab-Ali Issazadegan and Zahra Saif-Nobakht
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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

International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 2002, vol. 48, issue 1, 20-28

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.

Date: 2002
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