title: Childhood trauma and dissociation in patients with obsessive compulsive disorder.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The present study attempted to assess childhood trauma events and dissociative symptoms in patients with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD).
  
  
  METHODS
  The study included all patients who were admitted for the first time to the psychiatric outpatient unit over a 24-month period. Seventy-eight patients were diagnosed as having OCD during the two-year study period. Childhood traumatic events were assessed with a Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ). Obsessive compulsive disorder symptoms were assessed with the Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale (Y-BOCS). A Dissociation Questionnaire (DIS-Q) was also used to measure dissociative symptoms.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The mean of Y-BOCS points were 23.37 +/- 7.27. Dissociation questionnaire scores were between 0.40 and 3.87 and the mean was 2.23 +/- 0.76. Childhood trauma points were 1.27-4.77 and the mean was 2.38 +/- 0.56. There was no statistically significant relationship between Y-BOCS points and childhood trauma points (p > 0.05). There was a statistically significant positive relationship between Y-BOCS points and DIS-Q points. There was no statistically significant relationship between DIS-Q points and childhood trauma points (p > 0.05).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Childhood trauma questionnaire points might be significant clinically, although there was not a statistically significant correlation in our study. We also conclude that dissociative symptoms among patients with OCD should alert clinicians to treatment of the disorder.
authors.affiliation: Bagcilar Education and Research Hospital, Department of Psychiatry, Istanbul, Turkey. hasan.belli@hotmail.com
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Belli
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Ural
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Yesilyurt
authors.forename: M K
authors.initials: MK
authors.lastname: Vardart
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Akbudak
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Oncu
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D054523:Adult Survivors of Child Abuse / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D003627:Data Interpretation, Statistical; D039721:Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders; D004213:Dissociative Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000523:psychology; D004522:Educational Status; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008016:Life Change Events; D008297:Male; D017533:Marital Status; D008875:Middle Aged; D009771:Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology; D015995:Prevalence; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D014421:Turkey / Q000453:epidemiology