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Anger is associated with aggressive, contamination, and sexual obsessions in severe OCD outpatients

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2020

D. Piacentino ,
M. Pasquini ,
L. Tarsitani ,
I. Berardelli ,
V. Roselli ,
A. Maraone  and
M. Biondi
D. Piacentino*
Affiliation:
Sapienza, University of Rome, NESMOS Neuroscience, Mental Health, and Sensory Organs Department, Rome, Italy
M. Pasquini
Affiliation:
Sapienza, University of Rome, Department of Neurology and Psychiatry, Rome, Italy
L. Tarsitani
Affiliation:
Sapienza, University of Rome, Department of Neurology and Psychiatry, Rome, Italy
I. Berardelli
Affiliation:
Sapienza, University of Rome, Department of Neurology and Psychiatry, Rome, Italy
V. Roselli
Affiliation:
Sapienza, University of Rome, Department of Neurology and Psychiatry, Rome, Italy
A. Maraone
Affiliation:
Sapienza, University of Rome, Department of Neurology and Psychiatry, Rome, Italy
M. Biondi
Affiliation:
Sapienza, University of Rome, Department of Neurology and Psychiatry, Rome, Italy
*
*Corresponding author.

Abstract

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Introduction

Despite the potential theoretical and clinical relevance of psychopathological dimensions in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), few studies to date have investigated their possible association with obsession subtypes.

Objectives/Aims

We aimed to examine whether, in OCD patients, anger and other psychopathological dimensions are associated with specific obsession subtypes.

Methods

We consecutively recruited 57 first-visit DSM-V OCD patients (females = 66.7%; age range = 18–63 years) at the Psychiatric Outpatient Clinic of our University Hospital. These patients were affected by severe OCD, as shown by a median (1st quartile–3rd quartile) Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale (Y-BOCS) score of 27.0 (23.0–32.5). We used the point-biserial coefficient (rpbi) to measure the correlation between psychopathological dimensions, as assessed with the Scale for the Rapid Assessment of Psychopathology (SVARAD), and obsession subtypes, as evaluated with the Y-BOCS.

Results

We found significant correlations (P-values < 0.05) between: anger/aggressiveness dimension and aggressive, contamination, and sexual obsessions; apprehension/fear dimension and contamination, religious, and somatic obsessions; sadness/demoralization dimension and contamination and somatic obsessions; obsessiveness/iterativity dimension and all obsession subtypes; impulsivity dimension and aggressive and sexual obsessions; somatic concern/somatization dimension and contamination and somatic obsessions. We also found, by using the Mann-Whitney U-test, that OCD patients with comorbid Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder–but not Schizotypal or Histrionic ones–showed higher levels (P < 0.05) of obsessiveness/iterativity and anger/aggressiveness than OCD patients without the personality disorder.

Conclusions

Anger and other psychopathological dimensions seem to be linked with specific obsession subtypes in OCD patients, suggesting an association between these dimensions and OCD.

Disclosure of interest

The authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

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EW362
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European Psychiatry , Volume 33 , Issue S1: Abstracts of the 24th European Congress of Psychiatry , March 2016 , pp. S202
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Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2016
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