Insight and alexithymia in adult outpatients with obsessive-compulsive disorder
| Autor: | Gianna Sepede, R La Rovere, Gabriele Salini, Alessandra Cicconetti, Domenico De Berardis, Lucia Pelusi, Daniela Campanella, Laura Penna, R.M. Salerno, Filippo Maria Ferro, Alessandro Carano, Francesco Gambi, Carla Cotellessa |
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| Rok vydání: | 2004 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Personality Inventory Psychometrics behavioral disciplines and activities Mental Processes Alexithymia Obsessive compulsive mental disorders Outpatients medicine Humans Pharmacology (medical) Affective Symptoms Psychiatry Biological Psychiatry Depression (differential diagnoses) Demography Psychiatric Status Rating Scales Chi-Square Distribution General Medicine Middle Aged medicine.disease humanities Psychiatry and Mental health Linear Models Female Psychology Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience. 255(5) |
| ISSN: | 0940-1334 |
| Popis: | To elucidate the relationships between insight and alexithymia in a sample of adult outpatients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).112 adult outpatients with OCD were tested. Severity of OCD was assessed with the first 10-items of the Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale (Y-BOCS) and score for item # 11 on the Y-BOCS was considered as a measure of insight. Alexithymia was measured with 20-item Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20). Additional measures were Maudsley Hospital Obsessive Compulsive Inventory (MOCI) and Montgomery Asberg Depression Rating Scale (MADRS).Of the patients, 29.5% showed poor or no insight. Patients with poor or no insight were more alexithymic than patients with excellent, good and moderate insight. TAS-20 total score and subfactors positively correlated with score for item # 11 on the Y-BOCS, severity of OCD and MADRS scores. In stepwise regression model, MADRS scores, factor 3 of TAS-20 (Externally Oriented Thinking), somatic and hoarding-saving obsessions were significantly associated with lower insight.Results show a relationship between poor or absent insight and high alexithymia levels in OCD patients. |
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