title: A follow-up of adolescents with obsessive-compulsive disorder.
abstract: Twenty-six patients seen at a regional adolescent psychiatry unit between 1974 and 1979 with a discharge diagnosis of obsessive-compulsive disorder were followed up after an average of ten years. Of 24 subjects traced, outcome information was obtained from 20. At the point of follow-up, ten patients remained psychiatrically ill, six having persisting obsessive-compulsive symptoms. Poor outcome was associated with a family history of psychiatric illness and lack of response to therapy at initial contact. All patients who were asymptomatic at discharge had remained well.
authors.affiliation: Park Hospital for Children, Headington, Oxford.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Allsopp
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Verduyn
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001521:Behavior Therapy; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009771:Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy; D010553:Personality Development; D012114:Residential Treatment; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012917:Social Adjustment