Table 1.
Demographic and clinical characteristics of both groups.
| OCD patients (N = 21) |
Healthy controls (N = 21) |
Statistic |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean | SD | Mean | SD | t (df = 40) | p | ||
| Education, years | 12.1 | 1.5 | 12.1 | 1.5 | 0.10 | 0.92 | |
| Verbal intelligence | 107.3 | 10.1 | 110.2 | 12.4 | −0.82 | 0.42 | |
| Age, years | 33.1 | 10.8 | 33.1 | 10.1 | −0.02 | 0.99 | |
| Illness duration, years | 12.1 | 10.8 | |||||
| STAI-Sa |
41.8 | 8.3 | 28.6 | 4.8 | 6.28 | <0.001 | |
| STAI-Tb |
48.0 | 8.0 | 33.9 | 6.3 | 6.34 | <0.001 | |
| BDI-IIc |
12.8 | 8.8 | 2.6 | 3.1 | 5.00 | <0.001 | |
| MADRSd | 8.4 | 6.3 | – | ||||
| OCI-Re | 29.8 | 10.8 | 4.2 | 4.3 | 10.11 | <0.001 | |
| Y-BOCSf |
21.2 | 6.8 | – | ||||
a
STAI-S = State version of State–Trait Anxiety Inventory.
b
STAI-T = Trait version of State–Trait Anxiety Inventory.
c
BDI-II = Beck Depression Inventory II.
d
MADRS = Montgomery-Asberg Depression Rating Scale.
e
OCI-R = Obsessive–Compulsive Inventory—Revised.
f
Y-BOCS = Yale–Brown Obsessive–Compulsive Scale.