title: Phenomenology of obsessions in a Turkish series of OCD patients.
abstract: Forty-five outpatients interviewed by using the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-III-R, Outpatient version and diagnosed as obsessive-compulsive disorder were evaluated in terms of form and content of obsessions and compulsions. Obsessive-compulsive phenomena were classified according to a system proposed by Khanna and Channabasavanna. Depressive disorder was the most common comorbid diagnosis found in 73.2% of patients. The most prevalent obsession themes were daily activities and dirt contamination themes (64.4 and 53.3%, respectively). Religious themes were infrequent (11.1%) in the sample and Muslim culture seemed not to have a prominent impact on phenomenology of the disorder.
authors.affiliation: State Hospital of Izmir, Psychiatry Department, Turkey.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Eğrilmez
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Gülseren
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Gülseren
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kültür
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009771:Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder / Q000523:psychology*; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D014421:Turkey