Table 2.
Intrinsic phenomenological features of obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD): comparison between patients with poor and good insight.
| Poor insight (n = 124); BABS ≥ 14 |
Good insight (n = 148); BABS = 0 |
Statistical test | p | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Median | (Min–Max) | Median | (Min–Max) | |||
| OCS age of onset | 10 | (3–37) | 11 | (4–43) | UMW = 7,680.0 | 0.17 |
| Period without treatment | 17 | (0–56) | 11 | (0–58) | UMW = 5,281.0 | <0.001 |
| YBOCS —Total Score —Obsessions —Compulsions |
29 14 15 |
(8–40) (4–20) (4–20) |
23 11 12 |
(7–37) (1–18) (2–20) |
UMW = 4,670.0 UMW = 4,651.0 UMW = 5,286.0 |
<0.001 <0.001 <0.001 |
| D-YBOCS severity —Total Score —Aggressiveness —Sex/Religion —Symmetry/Ordering —Contamination/Cleaning —Hoarding |
24 7 6 9 9 3.5 |
(4–30) (0–15) (0–15) (0–15) (0–15) (0–15) |
21 3 0 6 3.5 0 |
(0–30) (0–15) (0–15) (0–15) (0–14) (0–13) |
UMW = 6,476.5 UMW = 7,220.0 UMW = 7,599.0 UMW = 6,730.5 UMW = 6,676.5 UMW = 6,051.0 |
<0.001 0.04 0.01 <0.001 <0.001 <0.001 |
| Severity Sensory Phenomena* |
9 |
(1–15) |
9 |
(1–15) |
UMW = 3,513.5 |
0.24 |
| n | % | n | % | |||
| Family History of OCD | 60 | 48.4 | 71 | 48.0 | X2 Yates < 0.001 | 1.00 |
| Family History of Tics | 25 | 20.8 | 22 | 15.7 | X2 Yates = 0.82 | 0.37 |
| D-YBOCS dimensions —Aggressiveness —Sex/Religion —Symmetry —Contamination/Cleaning —Hoarding |
87 77 113 98 83 |
70.2 62.1 91.1 79.0 66.9 |
95 83 121 93 59 |
64.2 56.1 82.3 62.8 39.9 |
X2 Yates = 0.83 X2 Yates = 0.78 X2 Yates = 3.71 X2 Yates = 7.71 X2 Yates = 18.75 |
0.36 0.38 0.054 0.006 <0.001 |
| Presence of any Sensory Phenomena |
94 |
75.8 |
92 |
62.2 |
X2 Yates = 5.20 |
0.023 |
*Poor insight (n = 92); Good insight (n = 85); p, level of statistical significance; n, absolute value; %, relative value; Min, minimum; Max, maximum; UMW, Mann–Whitney U test; χ2Yates, Yates chi-square test; SOC, obsessive compulsive symptoms; YBOCS, Yale–Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Symptom Scale; DYBOCS, dimensional scale for the assessment of the presence and severity of obsessive-compulsive symptoms; BABS, Brown Belief Assessment Scale.