Table 1.
Baseline characteristics of OCD patients
| Total sample Mean (sd) or % n = 239 |
n | Chronic (1) Mean (sd) or % n = 144 |
Intermittent (2) Mean (sd) or % n = 22 |
Remitting (3) Mean (sd) or % n = 73 |
Test statistic | p value | Post hoc analysis p < 0.05 |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sociodemographics | ||||||||
| Age (years) | 37.3 (10.9) | 239 | 38.0 (11.0) | 37.9 (13.4) | 35.7 (10.0) | F(2, 236) = 1.10 | 0.34 | |
| Gender, female | 54% | 239 | 58% | 50% | 45% | X2(2) = 3.48 | 0.18 | |
| Partner, yes | 64% | 234 | 61% | 77% | 66% | X2(2) = 2.39 | 0.30 | |
| Children, yes | 38% | 239 | 38% | 36% | 38% | X2(2) = 0.03 | 0.99 | |
| Education (years) | 13.1 (3.1) | 239 | 12.6 (3.1) | 13.3 (3.4) | 13.9 (3.1) | F(2, 236) = 4.18 | 0.02* | 1 < 3 |
| Employment, yes | 55% | 239 | 47% | 55% | 71% | X2(2) = 11.94 | <0.01* | 1 < 3 |
| Clinical characteristics | ||||||||
| Y-BOCS total | 20.8 (7.1) | 236 | 22.3 (6.8) | 19.1 (6.0) | 18.3 (7.3) | F(2, 233) = 8.84 | <0.01* | 1 > 3 |
| Late age of onset OCDa, yes | 36% | 217 | 30% | 41% | 47% | X2(2) = 5.73 | 0.06 | |
| Number of disordersb | 1.9 (1.1) | 239 | 1.9 (1.2) | 1.8 (0.8) | 1.9 (1.0) | F(2, 236) = 0.23 | 0.80 | |
| Beck anxiety index | 17.4 (11.3) | 230 | 17.8 (11.6) | 16.5 (8.9) | 17.0 (11.5) | F(2, 227) = 0.21 | 0.81 | |
| Beck depression inventory | 15.6 (9.7) | 227 | 16.2 (9.8) | 14.9 (8.9) | 14.7 (9.7) | F(2, 224) = 0.63 | 0.54 | |
aOnset ≥ 20 years
bNumber of current comorbid psychiatric disorders
*p < 0.05