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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Psychol Med. 2015 Sep 29;46(2):367–379. doi: 10.1017/S0033291715001889

Table 1.

Demographic characteristics of the participant sample.

Hoarding Disorder
(HD)
Obsessive-
Compulsive
Disorder (OCD)
Hoarding and
Obsessive-
Compulsive
Disorder (OCD)
Healthy Controls
(HC)
Hoarding (present vs
absent) Effects
OCD (present vs
absent) Effects
n= 14 n = 27 n = 10 n = 45

N % N % N % N % X2 or t
statistic (df)
p-value X2 or t
statistic (df)
p-value

Gender 7.027 0.008 0.023 0.879
  Female 11 78.6% 13 48.1% 9 90.0% 25 55.6%
  Male 3 21.4% 14 51.9% 1 10.0% 20 44.4%
Handednessa
  Right 13 92.9% 23 85.2% 8 80.0% 40 88.9%
  Left 0 0.0% 1 3.7% 2 20.0% 5 11.1%
  Both 1 7.1% 3 11.1% 0 0.0% 0 0.0%
Antidepressants 2 14.3% 15 55.6% 4 40.0% 3 6.7% 0 1 22.296 <.0001
M SD M SD M SD M SD
  Age, years 58.1 12.6 38.5 11.5 46.5 11.3 44.2 18.1 3.089 0.002 −2.061 0.042
  Education, years 15.4 1.9 16.5 1.9 14.8 1.5 15.8 2.4 −1.865 0.065 0.694 0.489
SI-R Total 55.4 15.5 16.8 10.5 53.4 11.8 8.8 8.4 15.9 <.0001 1.273 0.206
YBOCS Total 2.9 7.4 27.3 9.2 26.9 8 0 0 −2.337 0.024 11.66 <.0001
BAI Total 9.8 8.4 17 13.9 14.8 13 2.6 3.3 1.619 0.109 5.681 <.0001
BDI Total 9.3 7.5 10.7 10.3 26.7 18.7 2.3 3.8 4.069 0.0001 4.8 <.0001

SI-R, Saving Inventory-Revised; YBOCS, Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale; BAI, Beck Anxiety Inventory; BDI, Beck Depression Inventory.

a

The Crovitz-Zener (1962) questionnaire was used to measure handedness.