Comorbidity, Age of Onset and Suicidality in Obsessive –Compulsive Disorder (OCD): An International Collaboration

To collate data from multiple obsessive –compulsive disorder (OCD) treatment centres across seven countries and five continents, and to report findings in relation to OCD comorbidity, age of onset of OCD and comorbid disorders, and suicidality, in a large clinical and ethnically diverse sample, with the aim of investigating cultural var iation and the utility of the psychiatric diagnostic classification of obsessive–compulsive and related disorders.

Source: Comprehensive Psychiatry - April 13, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Authors: V Brakoulias, V Starcevic, A Belloch, C Brown, YA Ferrao, LF Fontenelle, C Lochner, D Marazziti, H Matsunaga, EC Miguel, YCJ Reddy, MC do Rosario, RG Shavitt, A Shyam Sundar, DJ Stein, AR Torres, K Viswasam Source Type: research