COMPARISON OF OBSESSIONS AND COMPULSIONS IN PATIENTS WITH ANOREXIA-NERVOSA AND OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER

Authors
BASTIANI AM ALTEMUS M PIGOTT TA RUBENSTEIN C WELTZIN TE KAYE WH
Citation
Am. Bastiani et al., COMPARISON OF OBSESSIONS AND COMPULSIONS IN PATIENTS WITH ANOREXIA-NERVOSA AND OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER, Biological psychiatry, 39(11), 1996, pp. 966-969
Citations number
10
Categorie Soggetti
Psychiatry
Journal title
Biological psychiatry → ACNP
ISSN journal
00063223
Volume
39
Issue
11
Year of publication
1996
Pages
966 - 969
Database
ISI
SICI code
0006-3223(1996)39:11<966:COOACI>2.0.ZU;2-J
Abstract
Patients with anorexia nervosa (n = 18) and patients with obsessive-co mpulsive disorder (OCD) (n = 16) had similar scores on the Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale (19 +/- 9 vs. 22 +/- 6). This suggests that these disorders have similar magnitude of impairment from obsessions and compulsions; however, OCD patients endorsed a wide variety of obse ssions and compulsions, whereas anorexics tended to endorse symptoms t hat were related to symmetry and order.