Volume : IX, Issue : III, March - 2019

Assessing the comorbidity of depression among the patients of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Dr. Savinder Singh, Dr. Pratik Kumar

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Most often patients suffering from OCD also have depressive symptoms, which might be secondary to the OCD and its burden to the quality of life, or it might be independent to OCD. The presence of depressive symptoms is the important factors, which make patient with OCD as suicidal. Suicidal tendencies in OCD always correlated with severity of depressive symptoms. But in clinical settings, we most often missed to evaluate suicidal tendencies and other comorbidities of OCD. Objective: So this study mainly focuses on various socio demographic differences and clinical profiles of patient with OCD and its comorbidity of depression. Methodology: In this study, 70 consecutive patients with OCD, attending Institute of Mental Health, Government Mental Hospital, Amritsar were included in this study as cases. Then both Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HADRS) and Yale Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale (YBOCS) were administered on the patients to analyze comorbidity of depression and the socio demographic profile and clinical profile of the patients. Results: Results showed that OCD patients had significant comorbidity of depression among them. Depression was found to be more severe in female OCD patients than the male OCD patients. Obsessive–compulsive disorder most often has depressive manifestations. Conclusion: The comorbid depressive symptoms make patients with OCD with suicidal ideations. It is essential to look for depressive symptoms in OCD in order to prevent suicidal attempts.

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ASSESSING THE COMORBIDITY OF DEPRESSION AMONG THE PATIENTS OF OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER, Dr. Savinder Singh, Dr. Pratik Kumar INDIAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED RESEARCH : Volume-9 | Issue-3 | March-2019

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