The relationship between obsessive-compulsive symptoms and depressive symptoms in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder: A network analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

The network model suggests that the comorbidity of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and depression is due to direct interactions between OCD and depression symptoms. The study investigates the network structure of OCD and depressive symptoms in patients with OCD and explores the pathways that connect the OCD and depression symptoms.

Materials and methods

The items of Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Symptom (Y-BOCS) Scale and the Depression Self-Rating Scale of 445 patients with OCD were analyzed by network model. Statistical analysis and visualization of the network were conducted using R software.

Results

Two bridge edges "uneasiness" and "time consumed by obsessions" and "low spirit" and "distress caused by obsessions" connected the OCD symptoms to depressive

SUBMITTER: Ma Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10309257 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature