Obsessive–compulsive symptom dimensions in schizophrenia patients with comorbid obsessive–compulsive disorder

OBJECTIVE: This study investigates obsessive-compulsive disorder patients in terms of strategic planning and its association with specific obsessive-compulsive symptom dimensions. METHOD: We evaluated 32 obsessive-compulsive disorder patients. Strategic planning was assessed by the Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure Test, and the obsessive-compulsive dimensions were assessed by the Dimensional Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale. In the statistical analyses, the level of significance was set at 5%. We employed linear regression, including age, intelligence quotient, number of comorbidities, the Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale score, and the Dimensional Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale. RESULTS: The Dimensional Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale "worst-ever" score correlated significantly with the planning score on the copy portion of the Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure Test (r = 0.4, p = 0.04) and was the only variable to show a significant association after linear regression (β = 0.55, t = 2.1, p = 0.04). Compulsive hoarding correlated positively with strategic planning (r = 0.44, p = 0.03). None of the remaining symptom dimensions presented any significant correlations with strategic planning. CONCLUSION: We found the severity of obsessive-compulsive symptoms to be associated with strategic planning. In addition, there was a significant positive association between the planning score on the copy portion of the Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure Test copy score and the hoarding dimension score on the Dimensional Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale. Our results underscore the idea that obsessive-compulsive disorder is a heterogeneous disorder and suggest that the hoarding dimension has a specific neuropsychological profile. Therefore, it is important to assess the peculiarities of each obsessive-compulsive symptom dimension.

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Assessment of obsessive-compulsive disorder comorbidity and obsessive-compulsive symptom dimensions in patients with schizophrenia

Saudi Medical Journal ◽

10.15537/smj.2020.3.24909 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 41 (3) ◽

pp. 275-282

Author(s):

Ahmet Kokurcan ◽

Yasir Şafak

Keyword(s):

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder ◽

Obsessive Compulsive ◽

Symptom Dimensions ◽

Compulsive Disorder ◽

Compulsive Symptom ◽

Obsessive Compulsive Symptom

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The Emotional Schemas and Obsessive-Compulsive Symptom Dimensions in People with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

International Journal of Cognitive Therapy ◽

10.1007/s41811-020-00075-6 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 13 (4) ◽

pp. 341-357

Author(s):

Vahid Khosravani ◽

Seyed Mehdi Samimi Ardestani ◽

Ali Mohammadzadeh ◽

Farangis Sharifi Bastan ◽

Ali Amirinezhad

Keyword(s):

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder ◽

Obsessive Compulsive ◽

Symptom Dimensions ◽

Compulsive Disorder ◽

Compulsive Symptom ◽

Obsessive Compulsive Symptom

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Beyond Belief: Incremental Prediction of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder by Looming Vulnerability Illusions

Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy ◽

10.1891/088983907781494564 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 21 (3) ◽

pp. 243-256 ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Author(s):

John H. Riskind ◽

Neil A. Rector

Keyword(s):

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder ◽

Symptom Severity ◽

Cognitive Vulnerability ◽

Preliminary Evidence ◽

The Self ◽

Obsessive Compulsive ◽

Compulsive Disorder ◽

Compulsive Symptom ◽

Small Cohort ◽

Obsessive Compulsive Symptom

Cognitive models argue that obsessions and compulsions arise from distorted beliefs and exaggerated interpretations of intrusive thoughts. While these models have led to important advances, recent research has suggested the need to go beyond the factors the models identify. One new factor to consider may involve looming vulnerability, the production of dynamic mental scenarios of danger outcomes (e.g., contamination, harming, losing wanted possessions) as rushing through time and space and escalating in odds of harm for the self. Looming vulnerability is a different form of cognition that differs from belief factors because it concerns the process of anticipating noxious events as rapidly rising in risk rather than static beliefs about the final end states (e.g., responsibility, perfection). The present study tested looming vulnerability by examining a small cohort of 37 patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Results provide strong preliminary evidence that looming vulnerability in OCD-related themes (e.g., contamination, hoarding, and pure obsessional) contributes significant and substantial variance to the prediction of obsessive compulsive symptom severity on the Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale beyond the effects of beliefs and interpretations. Thus, looming vulnerability may represent a different form of cognitive vulnerability for the development and persistence of clinical obsessions that warrants further investigation.

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The Obsessive-Compulsive Symptom (OCS) scale of the Child Behavior Checklist: A comparison between Swedish children with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder from a specialized unit, regular outpatients and a school sample

Journal of Anxiety Disorders ◽

10.1016/j.janxdis.2007.12.004 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 22 (7) ◽

pp. 1172-1179 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Tord Ivarsson ◽

Bo Larsson

Keyword(s):

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder ◽

Child Behavior ◽

Child Behavior Checklist ◽

Obsessive Compulsive ◽

Compulsive Disorder ◽

Compulsive Symptom ◽

School Sample ◽

Obsessive Compulsive Symptom ◽

Specialized Unit

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Suppression of Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms after Head Trauma

Case Reports in Medicine ◽

10.1155/2012/909614 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 2012 ◽

pp. 1-3

Author(s):

Seyed Hamzeh Hosseini ◽

Paria Azari ◽

Roohollah Abdi ◽

Reza Alizadeh-Navaei

Keyword(s):

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder ◽

Head Trauma ◽

Clinical Symptoms ◽

Brain Lesions ◽

Obsessive Compulsive ◽

Obsessive Compulsive Symptoms ◽

Compulsive Disorder ◽

Compulsive Symptom ◽

Obsessive Compulsive Symptom ◽

Unwanted Thoughts

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) encompasses a spectrum of clinical symptoms characterized by unwanted thoughts coupled with an intense compulsion to act and to repeat behavior fragments in a ritualistic and stereotyped sequence. Obsessive-compulsive symptom due to brain lesions is not rare, but suppression of these symptoms after head trauma is very rare and we found only 3 cases in review of literatures from 1966 to 2001. The case of a patient suffering with severe OCD is described of note; her symptoms disappeared following right temporo-parietofrontal lesion.

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