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Obsessive‐compulsive disorder in children and adolescents: predictors in childhood for long‐term phenomenological course
Author(s) -
Thomsen P. H.
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
acta psychiatrica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.849
H-Index - 146
eISSN - 1600-0447
pISSN - 0001-690X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0447.1995.tb09579.x
Subject(s) - term (time) , psychology , obsessive compulsive , developmental psychology , psychiatry , clinical psychology , pediatrics , medicine , physics , quantum mechanics
Prediction of the phenomenological course of obsessive‐compulsive disorder (OCD) in adulthood was determined in 47 probands referred in childhood for in‐ or outpatient treatment for OCD. The only factor that predicted a poor outcome, defined as the presence of OCD in adulthood, was severity of OCD in childhood, as measured by the duration of the obsessive‐compulsive symptoms. More females than males had an episodic course of OCD. However, just as many females as males had OCD, either chronically or episodically, in adulthood. Age of onset did not predict the phenomenological course of OCD.