Table 1. Demographic and Clinical Information.
| Ever Pregnant | ||||
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| Never Pregnant (N = 48) |
All Pregnant Women (N = 78) |
Pregnancy- related OCD Onset (N = 24) |
OCD Onset Unrelated to Pregnancy (N = 54) |
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| Mean±SD or N(%) | Mean±SD or N(%) | Mean±SD or N(%) | Mean±SD or N(%) | |
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Age on Admission
Race |
32.6 ± 13.0a | 40.8 ± 10.8a | 39.3 ± 8.2 | 41.5 ± 11.8 |
| Caucasian | 47 (98) | 69 (92) | 21 (91.3) | 48 (92.3) |
| Hispanic | 1 (2) | 5 (6.7) | 1 (4.4) | 4 (7.7) |
| Other | 0 (0) | 1 (1.3) | 1 (4.3) | 0 (0) |
| Marital | ||||
| Single | 31 (64.6)b | 8 (10.4)b | 4 (16.7) | 4 (7.6) |
| Married | 14 (29.2) | 54 (70.1) | 16 (66.7) | 38 (71.7) |
| Divorced | 3 (6.3) | 15 (19.5) | 4 (16.7) | 11 (20.7) |
| Education | ||||
| High School or less | 10 (21.3)c | 31 (40.8)c | 8 (33.3) | 23 (44.2) |
| Technical school or partial college |
17 (36.2) | 15 (19.7) | 6 (25.0) | 9 (17.3) |
| College or professional school |
20 (42.3) | 30 (39.5) | 10 (41.7) | 20 (38.5) |
| Baseline Y-BOCS | 25.1 ± 5.9 | 27.0 ± 5.9 | 29.5 ± 7.0 | 25.7 ± 4.9 |
| Baseline GAF | 55.4 ± 10.9 | 54.8 ± 12.3 | 51.6 ± 7.1 | 56.3 ± 14.0 |
| Age onset of OCD | 23.8 ± 10.6 | 26.0 ± 9.0 | 27.0 ± 7.1 | 25.5 ± 9.8 |
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Number prior psych
hospitalizations |
0.9 ± 1.5 | 1.0 ± 1.7 | 1.2 ± 2.0 | 0.9 ± 1.6 |
a
p = 0.0002.
b
p = 0.0001.
c
p = 0.04.
Abbreviations: OCD = Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Y-BOCS = Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale, GAF = Global Assessment of Functioning.