. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jun 1.

Published in final edited form as: Depress Anxiety. 2011 Apr 20;28(6):495–500. doi: 10.1002/da.20820

Table 2.

Rate of Mental Rituals and Reassurance Seeking by Primary Obsession Type

	Primary Compulsions
Primary Obsessions	N	Mental Rituals	Reassurance Seeking

Impulsive Aggression	31	16 (51.6%)	3 (9.7%)
Sexual Obsessions	14	9 (64.3%)	5 (35.7%)
Religious Obsessions	33	15 (45.5%)	8 (24.2%)
Somatic Obsessions	27	12 (44.4%)	4 (14.8%)
All Other Obsessions	144	19 (16.7%)	11 (9.6%)

Primary symptoms are those identified as one of up to three target obsessions or one of up to three target compulsions.

All other obsessions = Anyone who did not endorse Impulsive Aggression, Sexual Obsessions, Religious Obsessions, or Somatic Obsessions as a primary obsession.