Table 1.
General clinical features and scale between drug-alone group and CTM group.
| Drug-Alone Group (56) | CTM Group (44) | χ2/z | p | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age (years) | 26.5 (18.46) | 24 (16.60) | −0.699 | 0.486 | |
| Sex | female | 29 | 23 | 0.002 | 0.961 |
| male | 27 | 21 | |||
| Educational levels (years) | 15 (6.21) | 12 (1.19) | −3.656 | <0.001 | |
| Family history no | 50 | 39 | 0.000 | 1.000 | |
| yes | 6 | 5 | |||
| Age at onset of OCD, in years | 21 (7.45) | 18.5 (9.44) | −0.622 | 0.534 | |
| Duration of illness, in months | 64 (1.240) | 57 (2.500) | −0.431 | 0.667 | |
| Y-BOCS (baseline) overall | 25.64 ± 2.98 | 25.00 ± 5.75 | −0.254 | 0.799 * | |
| Obsessions | 13 (10.17) | 13 (6.19) | −0.551 | 0.582 | |
| Compulsions | 13 (9.16) | 13 (0.19) | −0.439 | 0.661 | |
| HAMD (baseline) | 10 (0.35) | 11.5 (1.39) | −0.589 | 0.556 | |
| HAMA (baseline) | 7 (1.28) | 8 (0.32) | −0.212 | 0.832 | |
| BABS (baseline) | 7 (2.21) | 8.5 (2.18) | −2.220 | 0.026 | |
| Insight, n(%) poor | 13 (23.2) | 14 (31.8) | 0.925 | 0.336 | |
| good | 43 (76.8) | 30 (68.2) | |||
| Treatment response, effectiveness n(%) | 7 (12.5) | 23 (52.3) | 18.561 | <0.001 | |
CTM = combined therapeutic modality; OCD = obsessive–compulsive disorder; Y-BOCS = Yale–Brown Obsessive–Compulsive Scale; HAMD-24 = 24-Item Hamilton Depression Scale; HAMA = Hamilton Anxiety Scale; BABS= Brown Assessment of Beliefs Scale; * represents the variance is not uniform using nonparametric rank sum test.