Table 1.
Demographic and clinical characteristics of OCD patients and healthy controls
| Full sample |
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| OCD patients | Controls | Statistic | p | Treatment subsample (OCD) | |
| N | 181 | 199 | 98 | ||
| Mean age, years (SD) | 32.80 (10.66) | 34.48 (12.57) | t(372.35) = −1.41 | 0.17 | 31.14 (8.40) |
| Gender, % male | 42.0 | 37.2 | χ2(1) = 0.92 | 0.34 | 45.9 |
| Education (SD)† | 4.82 (1.88) | 5.14 (1.64) | Mann-Whitney-U = 18644.50 | 0.13 | 4.70 (1.96) |
| Mean CTQ score (SD) | 47.63 (14.89) | 44.18 (12.55) | t(325.98) = 2.37 | 0.017 | 45.99 (14.70) |
| Mean LES score (SD) | −5.02 (7.35) | −2.38 (7.22) | t(365) = −3.46 | 0.001 | −4.90 (7.08) |
| Mean Y-BOCS score (SD) | Pre: 22.20 (6.79) | Pre: 22.71 (5.35) Post: 13.12 (7.34) |
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| Mean age of onset (SD) | 21.30 (10.96) | 20.88 (9.11) | |||
CTQ, Childhood Trauma Questionnaire; LES, Life Experience Survey; OCD, obsessive-compulsive disorder; SD, standard deviation; Y-BOCS, Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale.
†Education was assessed on a scale from 1 to 7.