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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Behav Res Ther. 2008 Jun 27;46(9):1040–1046. doi: 10.1016/j.brat.2008.06.005

Table 1.

Categories of obsessions and compulsions in OCD participants with and without hoarding behavior, by sex

MEN (N=151) WOMEN (N=358)
Hoarding (N=61) N (%) Non-hoarding (N=90) N (%) Odds Ratio (95% CI) Hoarding (N=138) N (%) Non-hoarding (N=220) N (%) Odds Ratio (95% CI)
OBSESSIONS
 Aggressive 44 (73) 51 (57) 2.1 (1.04–4.3) *, 85 (63) 138 (65) 0.91 (0.61.4)
 Sexual 27 (46) 26 (29) 2.1 (1.1–4.1) * 28 (20) 47 (22) 0.90 (0.5–1.5)
 Religious 27 (46) 25 (28) 2.1 (1.14.2) *, 35 (26) 64 (30) 0.82 (0.5–1.3)
 Contamination 37 (64) 52 (58) 1.3 (0.7–2.5) 83 (61) 123 (58) 1.1 (0.7–1.8)
 Symmetry 35 (60) 30 (35) 2.8 (1.45.7) ** 75 (55) 85 (41) 1.8 (1.12.7) *
 Somatic 28 (48) 29 (33) 1.8 (0.9–3.6) 51 (38) 74 (36) 1.1 (0.7–1.7)
COMPULSIONS
 Cleaning 38 (66) 47 (53) 1.7 (0.9–3.4) 80 (59) 126 (59) 1.03 (0.7–1.6)
 Checking 49 (83) 59 (66) 2.5 (1.15.6) * 97 (71) 155 (72) 0.98 (0.6–1.6)
 Repeating 35 (60) 42 (47) 1.7 (0.9–3.3) 73 (54) 97 (45) 1.4 (0.94–2.2)
 Counting 25 (43) 25 (28) 2.0 (0.98–3.9) 53 (39) 62 (29) 1.5 (0.97–2.4)
 Ordering 37 (64) 31 (35) 3.3 (1.76.6) ** 79 (58) 99 (47) 1.6 (1.032.5) *
*

p<0.05,

**

p<0.01.

Sex*Hoarding interaction, p<0.05