the aim of the present study is to investigate the relationship between obsessive-compulsive symptoms (ocss) and negative and positive symptoms in schizophrenia.subjects of the study comprised of 31 schizophrenia with obsessive-compulsive symptoms (19 men and 12 women) selected by convenience sampling method from iran psychiatric hospital. the diagnoses were established on the basis of dsm-iv-t...

Research findings on the specific relationships between beliefs and OCD symptoms have been inconsistent, yet the existing studies vary in their approach to measuring the highly heterogeneous symptoms of this disorder. The Dimensional Obsessive-Compulsive Scale (DOCS) is a new measure that allows for the assessment of OCD symptom dimensions, rather than types of obsessions and compulsions per se...

Background: Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) symptoms and the related disorders are subsumed under chronic psychiatric disorders which are of psychosocial and therapeutic importance. In most studies, the mean age of onset of significant OCD symptoms is adolescence period. The aim of this study was to evaluate OCD symptoms, Tic disorder, Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD) and Trichotilomania amon...

objective: attention is an important factor in information processing; obsessive- compulsive disorder (ocd) and generalized anxiety disorder (gad) are two main emotional disorders with a chronic course. this research examined the relationship among attentional control and intrusive thoughts (worry, rumination and obsession) in these disorders. it was hypothesized that attentional control is a c...

The present study was aimed to examine the relationship between parental report about their children’s obsessive-compulsive disorder symptoms and thought fusion with the parent-child relationship structure among the adolescents with obsessive-compulsive disorder. The research method was correlational descriptive and the statistical population included all the adolescents affected by obsessive c...

Chronic tic disorders (TD), attention-deficit/hyperactivity-disorder (ADHD), and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) frequently co-occur in clinical and epidemiological samples. Family studies have found evidence of shared familial transmission between TD and OCD, whereas the familial association between these disorders and ADHD is less clear. This study aimed to investigate to what extent liab...

introduction: comorbid obsessive-compulsive disorder (ocd) has been reported among patients with schizophrenia in other countries. but, the literature is not well-documented on this issue in iran (persia). the present study aimed to investigate the prevalence and severity of ocd and some of its related factors in a group of patients with schizophrenia in iran.  methods: this is a cross-sectiona...

Cognitive models of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) posit that specific kinds of dysfunctional beliefs (e.g., pertaining to responsibility and the significance of intrusive thoughts) underlie the development of this disorder. The present study was designed to prospectively evaluate whether dysfunctional beliefs thought to underlie OCD act as a specific vulnerability factor in the pathogenes...

objective: the aim of the current study was to investigate the role of fusion beliefs and metacognitions in obsessive–compulsive symptoms in the general population. methods: a sample of 200 students of kharazmi university was selected from various faculties and completed the following questionnaires: metacognitions questionnaire-30 (mcq-30), thought-fusion instrument (tfi) and maudsley obsessiv...