Open AccessImpact of Gender, Age at Onset, and Lifetime Tic Disorders on the Clinical Presentation and Comorbidity Pattern of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder in Children and Adolescents
Author(s) -
Canan Tanıdır,
Hilal Adaletli,
Hatice Güneş,
Ali Güven Kılıçoğlu,
Caner Mutlu,
Mustafa Kayhan Bahalı,
Tuğçe Aytemiz,
Özden Şükran Üneri
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of child and adolescent psychopharmacology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.935
H-Index - 84
eISSN - 1557-8992
pISSN - 1044-5463
DOI - 10.1089/cap.2014.0120
Subject(s) - comorbidity , schedule for affective disorders and schizophrenia , tic disorder , age of onset , psychiatry , psychology , conduct disorder , clinical psychology , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , medicine , pediatrics , anxiety , tics , disease
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a heterogeneous disorder; therefore, there is a need for identifying more homogeneous subtypes. This study aimed to examine the clinical characteristics and comorbidity pattern of a large sample of pediatric OCD subjects, and to examine the impact of gender, age at onset, and lifetime tic disorders on the clinical presentation and comorbidity pattern.