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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Jun 30.
Published in final edited form as: J Psychiatr Res. 2014 Jun 26;57:141–148. doi: 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2014.06.010

Table 2.

Types of sensory phenomena in OCD patients with Tourette’s Syndrome, OCD patients with chronic tic disorder and OCD patients without tics.

Sensory phenomena OCD + TS OCD + CTD OCD p-Value*
N = 90 N = 154 N = 757
Any Sensory Phenomena, N (%) 76 (84.4)A 117 (76.0)A 457 (60.4)B <0.001
Physical sensations, N (%) 58 (64.4)A s78 (50.6)A 232 (30.6)B <0.001
Just-right sensations, N (%) 63 (70.0) 94 (61.0) 362 (47.8) 0.654
Feelings of incompleteness, N (%) 19(21.1) 36 (23.4) 117 (15.5) 0.504
Energy release, N (%) 23 (25.6) 31 (20.1) 84(11.1) 0.133
Urge only, N (%) 38 (42.2)A 48 (31.2)A 154 (20.3)B 0.021

Abbreviations: OCD = Obsessive–Compulsive disorder; TS = Tourette’s Syndrome; CTD = chronic tic disorder.

*

Chi-square test;

A, B

post-hoc tests with Bonferroni correction: (A different from B in post-hoc tests).