Symptoms of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder in a Sample of Iranian Patients

Ghassemzadeh, Habibollah; Mojtabai, Ramin; Khamseh, A; Ebrahimkhani, Narges; Issazadegan, A; Saif-Nobakht, Zahra

doi:10.1177/002076402128783055

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“…Additionally, they waited up to six years before seeking professional help. This is consistent with the findings of other studies that have also demonstrated a long delay in seeking help among Muslim patients with OCD (Ghassemzadeh et al 2005(Ghassemzadeh et al , 2002Demet et al 2010). The findings are also in line with reports from other studies whereby highly religious participants sought help from religious authorities and faith-based healers regarding their OCD symptoms that involved religious themes (Greenberg andShefler 2002, 2008;Al-Solaim and Loewenthal 2011;Deacon et al 2013).…”

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Exploring Professional Help Seeking in Practicing Muslim Women with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Washing Subtype in Australia

2017

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Religion and religious practices can affect Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) symptom expression and influence the way that people with OCD seek advice or treatment. This study investigated the expression of OCD symptoms and help seeking for religious OCD symptoms among practicing Muslim women. Method: Five practicing Muslim women aged 33 to 45 years who had immigrated to Australia from Iran, Iraq, Turkey, and Afghanistan and were diagnosed with OCD washing subtype (OCD-W) took part in semi-structured interviews. Data Analysis: Thematic Analysis within a scientific realist framework was employed. Results: The most common compulsions reported by participants were performing excessive washing and repeating rituals before prayer, and these behaviours were carried out to prevent being punished by God. All participants had sought help for their OCD symptoms from an Imam before seeking help from a mental health professional, and the delay between symptom onset and OCD diagnosis by a psychiatrist ranged from 5 to 13 years. Conclusion: Effective evidence-based interventions for OCD are available and increasing awareness of OCD symptoms and treatment among Imams has the potential to reduce the delay between symptom onset and access to treatment for practicing Muslims who seek help and support.

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Exploring Professional Help Seeking in Practicing Muslim Women with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Washing Subtype in Australia

2017

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“…Although the phenomenology of this disorder occurs with remarkable consistency in different cultures, the frequency of religious-related obsessive-compulsive symptoms appears to be culturally bound [Ghassemzadeh et al, 2002;Shooka et al, 1998]. From the sociocultural perspective, the available data to date seem to agree with various clinical and demographic characteristics such as prevalence, age at onset, comorbid diagnosis, and symptom profiles that differ across gender.…”

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OCD symptoms in a sample of Turkish patients: a phenomenological picture

Karadağ¹,

Oğuzhanoğlu²,

Özdel³

et al. 2006

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This study aimed to investigate the clinical features of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and the possible association between obsessive-compulsive symptoms and culture-related characteristics in a sample of Turkish patients with OCD. We studied 141 patients with OCD (according to DSM-IV criteria) consecutively admitted to our outpatient clinic during the period from February 1998 to December 2003. We used the Turkish version of the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV (SCID) to interview all patients, and the Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale (Y-BOCS) to assess obsessive-compulsive symptoms and severity. The onset of OCD symptoms was earlier in males. Major depression was the most common comorbid disorder (30.5%). The most commonly occurring obsessions were contamination (56.7%), aggression (48.9%), and somatic (24.1%), followed by religious (19.9%), symmetry (18.4%), and sexual imagery (15.6%). Symmetry and sexual obsessions, and checking compulsions and rituals, tended to be more common in male patients. Dirt and contamination obsessions and washing compulsions were slightly more common in females. The vast majority of patients with religious obsessions (83%) and half of the patients with sexual obsessions had compulsions that included religious practices. Also, patients with sexual and religious obsessions had delayed seeking professional help.

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“…Maximum scores for the five scales (total, checking, washing, slowness-repetition, and doubt-conscientious) are 30, 9, 11, 7, and 7 respectively. As mentioned earlier, this test has been used frequently and widely in Iran and yielded satisfactory psychometric properties (Ghassemzadeh et al, 2002(Ghassemzadeh et al, , 2005a(Ghassemzadeh et al, , 2005b. …”

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“…In two earlier studies (Ghassemzadeh et al, 2002(Ghassemzadeh et al, , 2005a, we examined the OCD symptoms in two samples of Iranian OCD patients using Persian translations of MOCI. In these studies the mean scores on MOCI (M = 15.73, SD = 5.63 for first study and M = 14.67, SD = 5.76 for the second) were close to those reported in other settings.…”

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“…Convergent validity of the VOCI total scale and subscales was determined by correlating the VOCI with two other measure of OCD, namely the MOCI and OCI-R, which have been used in the previous studies of OCD with student samples in Iran (Ghassemzadeh et al, 2002(Ghassemzadeh et al, , 2005b (Table 5).…”

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Psychometric Properties of the Persian Version of the Vancouver Obsessional-Compulsive Inventory Inventory (VOCI) in Iranian Non-Clinical Sample

Ghassemzadeh¹,

Shams²,

Meysami³

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The Vancouver Obsessional-Compulsive Inventory (VOCI) is a self-report inventory developed to assess a wide range of Obsessive-Compulsive symptoms. The aim of this study was to investigate psychometric properties of the Persian version of the VOCI in non-clinical samples. A questionnaire package including the VOCI, BDI-II, BAI, MOCI, OCI-R and PSWQ was administered to volunteer undergraduate students (n = 233, 139 females, 94 males) from two Iran universities (Tehran University of Medical Sciences and Allameh Tabatabaei University). All the assessments were repeated in the same sample after 2 weeks. Psychometric analyses were run to assess reliability and validity of the Persian version of the VOCI. We converged an exploratory factor analysis to test the factor structure. The VOCI-Persian had good internal consistency, test-retest reliability, convergent and divergent validity. The present study showed that the factor structure of the questionnaire consisted of five main factors: VOCI Contamination, Checking, Obsessions, Hoarding and Perfectionism/Indecisiveness. Further studies are needed to develop psychometric tools with stronger diagnostic performance for OCD assessment.

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Symptoms of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder in a Sample of Iranian Patients

Abstract: With minor differences, the pattern of symptoms with various contents in this sample was similar to that in Western settings.

Cited by 56 publications

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Exploring Professional Help Seeking in Practicing Muslim Women with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Washing Subtype in Australia

Exploring Professional Help Seeking in Practicing Muslim Women with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Washing Subtype in Australia

OCD symptoms in a sample of Turkish patients: a phenomenological picture

Psychometric Properties of the Persian Version of the Vancouver Obsessional-Compulsive Inventory Inventory (VOCI) in Iranian Non-Clinical Sample

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