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- Title
Generic and Illness-Specific Quality of Life in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.
- Authors
Hauschildt, Marit; Jelinek, Lena; Randjbar, Sarah; Hottenrott, Birgit; Moritz, Steffen
- Abstract
Background: Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) is a chronic and disabling disorder. It profoundly compromises various aspects of patients' everyday life, thus affecting their quality of life (QoL). Using generic instruments, several studies have confirmed severely impaired health-related QoL in patients diagnosed with OCD. However, there has been a dearth of research on illness-specific QoL. Aims: The present study aimed to further investigate subjective QoL in individuals with OCD with a focus on illness-specific aspects. Method: To assess subjective QoL in a broad OCD sample, an internet survey was conducted with 123 participants with obsessive-compulsive symptoms. The survey comprised both a generic (WHOQOL-BREF) and a novel self-developed OCD-specific QoLmeasure (QoLOC). Psychopathology was determined with diagnostic standard instruments (self-report forms of: Y-BOCS, OCI-R, BDI-SF). Results: Regression analyses confirmed depression as the best predictor for decreased QoL. In addition, participants reported high despair resulting from OCD-related problems that differed across symptom subtypes. An exploratory factor analysis suggested four domains of OCD-specific problems tapped by the QoLOC: (1) depressiveness in association with OCD; (2) constraints in activities due to OCD symptoms or avoidance; (3) problems with partner and/or family due to OCD symptoms or avoidance; (4) self-concept/ coping of own illness. Conclusions: Results produced a comprehensive picture of QoL impairments and their relation to psychopathology in a representative OCD sample. Illness-specific concerns should be further addressed in QoL research in OCD because such problems are not sufficiently mirrored in generic QoL measures.
- Subjects
QUALITY of life; OBSESSIVE-compulsive disorder; INTERNET surveys; MENTAL depression; SYMPTOMS; AVOIDANCE (Psychology); SELF-perception; PATIENTS
- Publication
Behavioural & Cognitive Psychotherapy, 2010, Vol 38, Issue 4, p417
- ISSN
1352-4658
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S1352465810000275