title: [Obsessive disorders and syndromes and affective disorders. Apropos of a French epidemiologic obsessive compulsive disorders and obsessive compulsive syndromes DRT survey].
abstract: What was known in the past as "obsessive psychoneurosis" was considered to be rare, chronic and difficult to treat. New definitions proposed by APA diagnostic systems (DSM III, DSM III-R, DSM IV) and the WHO (ICD-10) have opened up the possibility of epidemiologic studies in the population as a whole and among patients consulting psychiatrists and general practitioners. All these studies reveal a much higher prevalence, the incidence increasing from 0.05% (former estimate) to about 2.5% of the general population (American ECA survey). This implies new clinical and etiopathogenic concepts of this pathology. Experience of so-called antidepressant drugs, with an essentially serotoninergic action, bringing about a notable improvement in obsessive disorders, has greatly contributed to these changes. COD and COS are very often interlinked with other psychiatric symptomatology, this frequent co-morbidity raising the question of the autonomy of certain syndromes, as well as that of the borders between the normal and pathological. The TOC of clinicians are not the same as the TOC of epidemiologists. Another problem is that of the role played by these obsessive disorders in what has been referred to as "general neurotic syndrome". What is the relationship between mood disorders and anxious pathology as a whole, insofar as the same drugs are indicated in these various disease patterns. We report here the results of the DRT survey involving patients presenting for the first time to psychiatrists in office practice and concerning 731 COD and COS, i.e. 17 % of 4 364 adult out-patients (6.5 % definite COD, 2.7 % probable COD and 7.5 % COS).
authors.affiliation: IPSO (Université Bordeaux II), CHS Charles Perrens.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bourgeois
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D018687:Antidepressive Agents, Second-Generation / Q000627:therapeutic use; D015897:Comorbidity; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D005602:France / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D019964:Mood Disorders / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000453:epidemiology*; D009771:Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000453:epidemiology*; D010348:Patient Care Team / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D017367:Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors / Q000627:therapeutic use; D016896:Treatment Outcome
chemical_list: D018687:Antidepressive Agents, Second-Generation; D017367:Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors
vernacular_title: Troubles et syndromes obsessionnels et pathologie de l'humeur. A propos de l'enquête épidémiologique française DRT TOC et SOC.