The study is presented in accordance with COREQ guidelines for reporting qualitative research, and the checklist is submitted as supplementary material. Ethical considerations Permission to conduct the research was granted by the Institutional Ethics Committee of the National Institute of Mental Health and...
Reliability at baseline for the CY-BOCS (r = 0.81, P = .001) and ascertainment of OCD on the ADIS-C (κ = 0.875, P = .001) were within the acceptable range. Medication-related adverse events were inventoried using an adverse-effect checklist administered in both self-report (in the ...
Despite progress in identifying homogeneous subphenotypes of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) through factor analysis of the Yale Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale Symptom Checklist (YBOCS-SC), prior solutions have been limited by a reliance on presupposed symptom categories rather than discrete symptoms...
A strength of the study lies in its naturalistic design with broad inclusion criteria; therefore it was possible to study a representative sample of the population of adults with OCD seeking outpatient psychiatric treatment. For example, medication with SSRIs (according to the treatment guidelines fo...
(inattentive subscale of the Strengths and Weaknesses of ADHD-symptoms and Normal Behavior (SWAN) rating scale52), and obsessive-compulsive traits (Toronto Obsessive Compulsive rating scale (TOCS)53). Participants also completed the Child-Behaviour Checklist (CBCL)59. Full-scale IQ was estimated ...