Table 1.
Comparison of demographic and diagnostic characteristics among inpatients and outpatients with OCD from the same anxiety clinic.
| Inpatients (N = 187) |
Outpatients (N = 91) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Characteristic | % | % | p | Phi |
| Female gender | 63.6 | 64.8 | 0.894 | -0.01 |
| Employed/student | 48.9 | 66.7 | 0.004 | -0.18 |
| Married/cohabitant | 34.8 | 40.7 | 0.355 | 0.06 |
| Using antidepressants | 54.0 | 26.7 | 0.001 | -0.26 |
| Previous outpatient treatment | 99.5 | 81.3 | 0.001 | -0.35 |
| Previous inpatient treatment | 36.8 | 17.6 | 0.001 | -0.20 |
| M (SD) | M (SD) | t | p | |
| Age | 34.24 (11.2) | 29.90 (10.1) | 3.13 | 0.002 |
| Y-BOCS | 26.03 (4.8) | 22.02 (4.3) | 6.70 | 0.001 |
| OCI-R | 30.22 (12.6) | 24.22 (12.0) | 3.73 | 0.001 |
| BDI | 19.29 (9.9) | 20.42 (12.1) | -0.76 | 0.447 |
Significant p-values are in boldface. OCD, Obsessive-compulsive disorder; Y-BOCS, Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale; OCI-R, Obsessive-Compulsive Inventory-Revised; BDI, Beck Depression Inventory.