Symptom profiles in pediatric obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD): The effects of comorbid grooming conditions
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Participants
The sample consisted of children and adolescents (hereafter referred to as children) referred to the Pediatric Anxiety Research Clinic (PARC), located in Providence, RI and affiliated with the Warren Alpert School of Medicine at Brown University, through newspaper advertisements, community outreach, and clinic referrals. Children (and their families) was recruited through several of the PARC's ongoing research studies evaluating the phenomenology and treatment of childhood anxiety disorders
OCD symptoms
Chi-square analyses examined differences with respect to the frequency of OCD symptom dimensions across the two groups (Table 2). Children in the OCD + grooming group were more likely to experience contamination (χ2(1) = 4.62, P = .03), aggressive (χ2(1) = 3.68, P = .05), sexual (χ2(1) = 4.83, P = .03), somatic (χ2(1) = 7.75, P < .01), and religious obsessions (χ2(1) = 6.08, P = .01), as well as washing (χ2(1) = 5.82, P = .01), checking (χ2(1) = 6.49, P = .01), repeating (χ2(1) = 13.21, P < .01), counting (χ2(1) = 9.05, P < .01),
Discussion
To our knowledge, this is the first study to examine possible differences in symptom profiles and other phenomenological characteristics among children presenting with OCD alone and those presenting with OCD and a comorbid grooming behavior (e.g., OCD + grooming). Results suggest that those children presenting with a comorbid grooming behavior demonstrated different symptom profiles than those with OCD alone. In particular, these children reported more obsessions and compulsions than those with
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