SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS AND PSYCHIATRIC COMORBIDITY IN PATIENTS WITH OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER

BACKGROUND Obsessive-compulsive Disorder (OCD) is a distressing anxiety disorder with prevalence of 0.6% in India. About half of the patients have onset in childhood and adolescence with males having earlier onset. Early onset and male cases have severe illness and poor prognosis. Most of them are unmarried and from middle or upper classes. Patients with poor insight and resistance and comorbidity especially psychosis generally had poor prognosis. MATERIALS AND METHODS Socio-demographic data of 50 consecutive patients with OCD diagnosed with ICD-10 criteria were collected and assessed on YBOCS and M.I.N.I. RESULTS 46% patients were between the age group of 18-25 yrs., 56% were female, 62% were married, 60% were from rural background, 44% were educated up to secondary school, 62% were from middle income group, 70% had illness of more than 2 yrs. and 42% had depression. CONCLUSION This study showed higher preponderance in females, rural patients, low and middle income group. Most common family history of psychiatric illness was affective disorder and depression was the most common comorbidity.