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

Habibollah Ghassemzadeh

Tehran University of Medical Sciences; Roozbeh Hospital, Kargar Ave., Tehran 13185, Iran. Fax: 009821-549113 hghasemzadeh{at}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

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.

International Journal of Social Psychiatry, Vol. 48, No. 1, 20-28 (2002)
DOI: 10.1177/002076402128783055
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