Journal
HEALTHCARE
Volume 10, Issue 10, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/healthcare10101910
Keywords
obsessive-compulsive disorder; psychotic disorder; schizophrenia; comorbidity; insight; functioning
Funding
- Tokyo Metropolitan Government [H27080303, H29080301, R01080303, R03080302, R04080302]
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The study investigates the clinical differences between OCD patients with and without comorbid psychotic disorder and finds that OCD patients with comorbid psychotic disorder score lower on insight and functioning assessments.
(1) Background: Even though the comorbidity of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and a psychotic disorder (PD), such as schizophrenia, is being increasingly recognized, the impact of this comorbidity on the clinical presentation, including insight into obsessive-compulsive symptoms and the functioning of OCD, remains unclear. (2) Methods: To investigate clinical differences between OCD patients with and without PD, 86 Japanese outpatients who met the DSM-IV-TR criteria for OCD were recruited and divided into two groups: 28 OCD patients with PD, and 58 OCD patients without PD. The two groups were cross-sectionally compared in terms of their sociodemographic profiles and clinical characteristics, including the DSM-IV-TR insight specifier and the Global Assessment of Functioning (GAF). (3) Results: The results showed that OCD patients with PD scored lower on both the insight and GAF assessments. (4) Conclusions: The present study suggests that comorbid PD in OCD is a clinical entity.
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