Everyday executive functioning in pediatric obsessive-compulsive disorder: diagnostic specificity, clinical correlations, and outcome.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) typically onsets during childhood or adolescence and difficulties with executive functioning (EF) may be involved in its onset and maintenance. Yet, few studies have examined everyday EF difficulties in youth with OCD and no study has compared EF in youth with OCD to EF in youth with anxiety disorders, leaving the diagnostic specificity of EF unclear.

Methods

In this study, parents of treatment-seeking children and adolescents with OCD (n = 96, M_age = 13.3, SD = 2.7, 59% girls) or anxiety disorders (n = 67, M_age = 14.0, SD = 2.6, 78% girls) reported on their children's everyday EF using the Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function (BRIEF) measure.

Results

Compared to community youth, the two c

SUBMITTER: Rydqvist F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10464101 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature