A comparative study of obsessive-compulsive disorder in Costa Rica and the United States

2008 ◽  
Vol 25 (7) ◽  
pp. 609-619 ◽  
Author(s):  
Denise A. Chavira ◽  
Helena Garrido ◽  
Monica Bagnarello ◽  
Amin Azzam ◽  
Victor I. Reus ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Costa Rica ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder ◽  
The United States ◽  
Obsessive Compulsive ◽  
Compulsive Disorder

scholarly journals The COVID-19 Pandemic's Impact on Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Survey of Online Peer Support Community Users (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Kaveladze ◽  
Katherine Gao Chang ◽  
Jedidiah Siev ◽  
Stephen M Schueller
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Missing Data ◽  
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder ◽  
Peer Support ◽  
The United States ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Obsessive Compulsive ◽  
Compulsive Disorder ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
Growing Body

BACKGROUND People with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) have faced unique challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic. Research from the first two months of the pandemic suggested that between 7% and 37% of people with OCD experienced worsening in their OCD symptoms since the pandemic began, while the rest experienced either no change or an improvement in their symptoms. However, as society-level factors relating to the pandemic have evolved, the pandemic’s impacts on people with OCD have likely changed as well, in complex and population-specific ways. Therefore, this work contributes to a growing body of knowledge on the COVID-19 pandemic's impact on people, and demonstrates how differences across studies might emerge when studying specific populations and at specific timepoints. OBJECTIVE Our study aimed to learn how members of online OCD peer support communities felt the COVID-19 pandemic had impacted their OCD symptoms, 3-4 months after the pandemic began. METHODS We recruited participants from online OCD peer support communities for our brief survey. Participants indicated how much they felt their OCD symptoms had changed since the pandemic began, and how much they felt that having OCD was making it harder to deal with the pandemic. RESULTS 196 people responded to our survey, although some participants skipped some questions. Among non-missing data, 65.9% (108/164) of respondents were from the United States and 90.5% (152/168) had been subjected to a stay-at-home order. 92.9% (182/196) of respondents said they experienced worsening of their OCD symptoms since the pandemic began, although the extent to which symptoms worsened differed across dimensions of OCD, with symmetry and completeness symptoms less likely than others to have worsened. 95.5% (171/179) of respondents felt that having OCD made it harder to deal with the pandemic. CONCLUSIONS Our study of online OCD peer support community members found a considerably higher rate of OCD symptom worsening than did other studies of people with OCD during the pandemic. Factors such as quarantine length, location, overlapping society-level challenges, and differing measurement and sampling choices may help to explain this difference across studies.

Defining and Addressing Gaps in Care for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder in the United States

2021 ◽  
pp. appi.ps.2020002
Author(s):  
Meredith S. Senter ◽  
Sapana R. Patel ◽  
Lisa B. Dixon ◽  
Robert W. Myers ◽  
H. Blair Simpson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder ◽  
The United States ◽  
Obsessive Compulsive ◽  
Compulsive Disorder

Obsessions, Compulsions, Clozapine, and Risperidone

CNS Spectrums ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 26-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert W. Baker ◽  
Paul D. Bermanzdhn ◽  
Donna Ames Wirshing ◽  
K. N. Roy Dhengappa
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder ◽  
Serotonin Reuptake ◽  
Antipsychotic Drugs ◽  
The United States ◽  
Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors ◽  
Obsessive Compulsive ◽  
Compulsive Disorder ◽  
The Past ◽  
First Time

In the past decade, clozapine, risperidone, and olanzapine were marketed for the first time in the United States, and other new antipsychotic drugs are expected to follow soon. Also within the past decade, the efficacy of serotonin-reuptake inhibitors (SRIs) has been demonstrated in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and the serotonin hypothesis of OCD has been articulated clearly.

scholarly journals Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Online Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Support Community Members: Survey Study

10.2196/26715 ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. e26715
Author(s):  
Benjamin Kaveladze ◽  
Katherine Chang ◽  
Jedidiah Siev ◽  
Stephen M Schueller
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder ◽  
The United States ◽  
Survey Study ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Obsessive Compulsive ◽  
Compulsive Disorder ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
Growing Body ◽  
The Impact

Background People with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) have faced unique challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic. Research from the first two months of the pandemic suggests that a small proportion of people with OCD experienced worsening in their OCD symptoms since the pandemic began, whereas the rest experienced either no change or an improvement in their symptoms. However, as society-level factors relating to the pandemic have evolved, the effects of the pandemic on people with OCD have likely changed as well, in complex and population-specific ways. Therefore, this study contributes to a growing body of knowledge on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on people and demonstrates how differences across studies might emerge when studying specific populations at specific timepoints. Objective This study aimed to assess how members of online OCD support communities felt the COVID-19 pandemic had affected their OCD symptoms, around 3 months after the pandemic began. Methods We recruited participants from online OCD support communities for our brief survey. Participants indicated how much they felt their OCD symptoms had changed since the pandemic began and how much they felt that having OCD was making it harder to deal with the pandemic. Results We collected survey data from June through August 2020 and received a total of 196 responses, some of which were partial responses. Among the nonmissing data, 65.9% (108/164) of the participants were from the United States and 90.5% (152/168) had been subjected to a stay-at-home order. In all, 92.9% (182/196) of the participants said they experienced worsening of their OCD symptoms since the pandemic began, although the extent to which their symptoms worsened differed across dimensions of OCD; notably, symmetry and completeness symptoms were less likely to have worsened than others. Moreover, 95.5% (171/179) of the participants felt that having OCD made it difficult to deal with the pandemic. Conclusions Our study of online OCD support community members found a much higher rate of OCD symptom worsening than did other studies on people with OCD conducted during the current COVID-19 pandemic. Factors such as quarantine length, location, overlapping society-level challenges, and differing measurement and sampling choices may help to explain this difference across studies.

Cross-National Epidemiology of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

CNS Spectrums ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 3 (S1) ◽  
pp. 6-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Myrna M. Weissman
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder ◽  
Clinical Characteristics ◽  
Age At Onset ◽  
Diagnostic Procedures ◽  
The United States ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Obsessive Compulsive ◽  
Compulsive Disorder ◽  
Cross National

Our knowledge of the prevalence and demographic and clinical characteristics of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) has, until recently, been based almost exclusively on patient samples. The epidemiology of OCD was first described in a large United States household sample from the Epidemiologic Catchment Area (ECA) study. Since these original observations, the rates of OCD in household populations determined from diagnostic procedures similar to those used in the United States have been published from different parts of the world. Detailed comparisons of rates, sex ratios, age at onset, and demographic and clinical characteristics of OCD in these samples are now available.This article reports on the cross-national epidemiology of OCD from seven international epidemiologic surveys, including the United States ECA study. Each survey used the Diagnostic Interview Schedule (DIS), a highly structured interview, developed for use in epidemiologic surveys, that yields Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Third Edition (DSM-III) psychiatric diagnoses. All investigators provided the data from their study to be pooled at Columbia University, and the prevalence rates were standardized to the age and sex distribution of the five-site ECA household population so that more precise estimates and comparisons could be made.

scholarly journals A cross-cultural clinical comparison between subjects with obsessive-compulsive disorder from the United States and Brazil

2017 ◽  
Vol 254 ◽  
pp. 104-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gustavo C. Medeiros ◽  
Albina R. Torres ◽  
Christina L. Boisseau ◽  
Eric W. Leppink ◽  
Jane L. Eisen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Obsessive Compulsive ◽  
Compulsive Disorder ◽  
Clinical Comparison
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