Table 3.
Extrinsic phenomenological features of 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) | |||
| BDI | 17 | (0–52) | 13 | (0–53) | UMW = 7,384.5 | 0.007 |
| BAI | 15 | (0–51) | 12 | (0–48) | UMW = 8,045.0 | 0.096 |
| n | % | n | % | |||
| Suicidality —Ideation —Plan —Attempt —Hospital Internment —Familial History |
48 25 11 4 23 |
40.3 21.0 9.2 3.2 19.3 |
55 29 15 4 22 |
39.3 20.7 10.7 2.7 15.7 |
X2 Yates = 0.002 X2 Yates < 0.001 X2 Yates = 0.03 X2 Yates = 0.65 X2 Yates = 0.36 |
0.96 1.00 0.85 0.80 0.55 |
| Comorbidities —Major Depression —Dysthymia —BAD —Delusional Disorder —Anxiety Disorders —Panic —Agoraphobia —Social Phobia —Simple Phobia —PTSD —GAD —Alcohol Abuse/Dependence —Tics —Tourette Disorder —Separation Anxiety —ADHD |
51 16 6 6 10 3 32 30 21 32 5 34 10 7 22 |
41.1 12.9 4.8 4.8 8.1 2.4 25.8 24.2 16.9 25.8 4.0 27.4 8.1 5.6 17.7 |
42 21 1 2 16 7 35 36 12 49 6 41 9 6 14 |
28.4 14.2 0.7 1.4 10.8 4.7 23.6 24.3 8.1 33.1 4.1 27.7 6.1 4.1 9.5 |
X2 Yates = 4.94 X2 Yates = 0.02 Fisher Fisher X2 Yates = 0.31 Fisher X2 Yates= 0.08 X2 Yates < 0.001 X2 Yates = 4.14 X2 Yates =1.39 X2 Yates =1.20 X2 Yates < 0.001 X2 Yates = 0.16 X2 Yates = 0.11 X2 Yates = 3.34 |
0.08 0.90 0.05 0.15 0.58 0.35 0.79 1.00 0.04 0.24 0.55 1.00 0.69 0.75 0.07 |
p, level of statistical significance; n, absolute value; %, relative value; Min, minimum; Max, maximum; UMW, Mann–Whitney U test; χ2Yates, Yates chi-square test; BDI, Beck Depression Inventory; BAI, Beck Anxiety Inventory; BAD, bipolar affective disorder; PTSD, posttraumatic stress disorder; GAD, generalized anxiety disorder; ADHD, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder; BABS, Brown Belief Assessment Scale.