PATTERNS OF OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER BEHAVIOR AMONG MEDICAL AND ENGINERRING STUDENTS

Abstract

Introduction. The obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) is one of psychiatric disorder that has correlation to factors such as sex, marriage, job, IQ and socieconomic state. There is not any documented information about the OCD and correlated faceors in our community. In this study the prevalence and severity of four patterns of OCD in medical and engineers student were estimated. Methods. One hundred and sixty medical students (from IUMSHS) and 160 engineer students (from Isfahan University) were selected, randomly. Four patterns of OCD that was studied include checking, cleaning, doubting and slowness. The study was performed by application of moudsley obsessive compulsive inventory (MOCL) that include 30 items about symptoms of OCD.
Results. Estimated frequncies were 45 percent for cleaning, 42.8 percent for checking 20.3 percent for slowness and 41.2 percent for doubting.
Discussion. It seems that there is no relation between study course and ineidence of subtype of OCD. The checking subtype in males and washing subtype in females had greater frequency and severity than other subtypes. But there was no relation between sexuality and two other subtypes (slowness and doubting). The frequency of checking subtype was greater in single student than married stuedents.