Table 1.
Demographic and clinical characteristics of OCD and control groups
| Controls | OCD patients | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean | s.d. | Mean | s.d. | t | p | |
| Age (years) | 36.16 | 11.27 | 37.79 | 10.10 | 0.469 | 0.469 |
| Verbal IQ | 117.44 | 6.89 | 114.40 | 7.92 | 1.248 | 0.220 |
| MADRS | 3.89 | 3.05 | 9.21 | 6.02 | 3.431 | 0.001 |
| YBOCS | ||||||
| Obsessions | 10.47 | 3.17 | ||||
| Compulsion | 9.47 | 3.86 | ||||
| Total | 19.95 | 5.98 | ||||
| OCI-R | 10.89 | 6.83 | 26.94 | 13.65 | 4.561 | 0.001 |
| STAI-state | 28.74 | 7.26 | 40.33 | 11.56 | 3.67 | 0.001 |
| STAI-trait | 33.79 | 9.86 | 53.06 | 12.99 | 5.098 | 0.001 |
OCD, Obsessive compulsive disorder; IQ, intelligence quotient; MADRS, Montgomery–Asberg Depression Rating Scale; YBOCS, Yale–Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale; OCI-R, Obsessive Compulsive Inventory – revised; STAI, State-Trait Anxiety Inventory.