@Article{, title={Obsessive‑Compulsive Symptoms among Clients Attending Psychiatric Outpatients’ Clinic in Duhok}, author={Salim Saadi Miho Alhakem, Tamara AbdAlwahab Ibraheem1, Alaa Noori Sarkees}, journal={Medical Journal of Babylon مجلة بابل الطبية}, volume={15}, number={2}, pages={155-159}, year={2018}, abstract={Background: Obsessive‑compulsive disorder (OCD) is a neuropsychiatric illness, develops in childhood, and can result in considerableimpairment to an individual’s lifespan. The persons suffer from OCD do not seek treatment in medical settings and remain undiagnosed ormisdiagnosed, and consequently, the person faces persistent untreated symptoms over time leading to considerable disturbance in familial,academic, or social functioning. Therefore, careful assessment of OCD symptoms is seminal to clinical practice. OCD among clients attendingthe outpatient clinic of Azadi Teaching Hospital in Iraq was assessed in the current study. Methods: This cross‑sectional study that consistedof 465 consecutive clients who visited an outpatient psychiatric clinic of Azadi Teaching Hospital in Iraq was designed, and face‑to‑faceinterview was performed using a translated Arabic version of Padua Inventory‑Washington State University Revision in order to assess theOCD symptoms. Results: The study confirmed previously unrecognized symptoms of obsessions and compulsions in those who visited thepsychiatric outpatients’ clinic. In addition, it was shown that among total obsessions and compulsions, obsessions included contamination,thoughts of harm to self/others, impulses to harm self/others and compulsions included checking and dressing/grooming and washing whichwere more prevalent in males, those completed primary school education, completed higher education, and divorced/married clients. Thestudy did not show any significant difference among different age group and employment aspects. Conclusion: The study confirmed thatsome individuals are unaware of their obsessions and compulsions and clinical screening would give us a golden opportunity to their issuerecognition and immediate treatment commencement.

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