ArticleEuropean child & adolescent psychiatry2016
Subclinical autism spectrum symptoms in pediatric obsessive-compulsive disorder.
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- The prevalence of autism spectrum traits and autism spectrum disorders in children and adolescents with obsessive compulsive disorder: systematic review and meta-analysis.BJPsych open · 2026Review
- Subthreshold Autism and ADHD: A Brief Narrative Review for Frontline Clinicians.Pediatric reports · 2025Review
- Autism spectrum disorder, social anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorders: beyond the comorbidity.BMC psychiatry · 2025Article
- Prevalence and Correlates of the Concurrence of Autism Spectrum Disorder and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder in Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Brain sciences · 2024Review
- Autistic Traits as Predictors of Increased Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Severity: The Role of Inflexibility and Communication Impairment.Brain sciences · 2024Article
- Body Dysmorphic Symptoms in Youth with Obsessive-compulsive Disorder: Prevalence, Clinical Correlates, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Outcome.Child psychiatry and human development · 2023Article
- Do Autistic Traits Predict Outcome of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in Pediatric Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder?Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2023Article
- Sensory Over-responsivity: A Feature of Childhood Psychiatric Illness Associated With Altered Functional Connectivity of Sensory Networks.Biological psychiatry · 2023Article
- Eating Challenges in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Development and Validation of the "Aut-Eat" Questionnaire (AEQ).Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2022Article
- Associations of Autism Traits With Obsessive Compulsive Symptoms and Well-Being in Patients With Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: A Cross-Sectional Study.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Felt but not seen: Observed restricted repetitive behaviors are associated with self-report-but not parent-report-obsessive-compulsive disorder symptoms in youth with autism spectrum disorder.Autism : the international journal of research and practice · 2020Article
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder in children and adolescents: epidemiology, diagnosis and management.Translational pediatrics · 2020Review
- Hoarding in children and adolescents with obsessive-compulsive disorder: prevalence, clinical correlates, and cognitive behavioral therapy outcome.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2019Article
- Prevalence and Characteristics of Autism Spectrum Disorder Among Spanish School-Age Children.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2018Article
- Autism Spectrum Symptoms in Children and Adolescents with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and Their Mothers.Noro psikiyatri arsivi · 2018Article
- Pediatric obsessive-compulsive disorder with tic symptoms: clinical presentation and treatment outcome.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2017Article
- Elevated Autism Spectrum Disorder Traits in Young Children with OCD.Child psychiatry and human development · 2016Article
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Abstract
The literature on subclinical autism spectrum (ASD) symptoms in pediatric obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is scarce, and it remains unclear whether ASD symptoms are related to OCD severity. The aims of the present study were to assess the prevalence of ASD symptoms and age and sex differences in children and adolescents with OCD, and to explore the relation between ASD symptoms and OCD severity. This is the largest study of ASD symptoms in an OCD population to date, and the first directly aimed at elucidating sex and age differences in this matter. The study used baseline data from the Nordic Long-term OCD Treatment Study in which parents of 257 children and adolescents with OCD aged 7-17 completed the Autism Spectrum Screening Questionnaire. OCD severity was assessed with the Children's Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale. Pediatric OCD patients were found to exhibit elevated rates of ASD symptoms compared to a norm group of school-age children. ASD symptoms were concentrated in a subgroup with a prevalence of 10-17 %. This subgroup was characterized by a male preponderance with a sex ratio of approximately 2.6:1, while children versus adolescents with OCD exhibited similar rates. Autism-specific social and communication difficulties were not related to OCD severity, while restricted repetitive behavior was positively related to OCD severity. The results indicate that clinicians need to be aware of ASD symptoms in children and adolescents with OCD since one out of ten exhibits such symptoms at a clinical sub-threshold.
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