ArticleEuropean child & adolescent psychiatry2021
Risk factors for obsessive-compulsive symptoms. Follow-up of a community-based youth cohort.
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- The Parallel Pandemic: A Systematic Review on the Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on OCD among Children and Adolescents.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Pooled it
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- Australian Clinicians' Capabilities, Opportunities, and Motivations in Implementing Exposure and Response Prevention for Youth with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: An Exploratory Study.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Prevalence of Anxiety and Depression Among Children and Adolescents in Low- and Middle-Income Countries-A Systematic Review.Psychiatric research and clinical practice · 2025Review
- Prevalence of obsessive-compulsive symptoms among adult population in primary care centers in Bahrain - A cross-sectional study.Journal of family medicine and primary care · 2024Article
- What do we mean when we talk about socioeconomic status? Implications for measurement, mechanisms and interventions from a critical review on adolescent mental health.General psychiatry · 2024Review
- A Study on Online Intervention for Early Childhood Eating Disorders during COVID-19.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Searching for host immune-microbiome mechanisms in obsessive-compulsive disorder: A narrative literature review and future directions.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2021Review
- Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms, Polygenic Risk Score, and Thalamic Development in Children From the Brazilian High-Risk Cohort for Mental Conditions (BHRCS).Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Article
- Neurocircuit models of obsessive-compulsive disorder: limitations and future directions for research.Revista brasileira de psiquiatria (Sao Paulo, Brazil : 1999)Review
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Abstract
Environmental factors are at least as important as genetic factors for the development of obsessive-compulsive symptoms (OCS), but the identification of such factors remain a research priority. Our study aimed to investigate the association between a broad scope of potential risk factors and OCS in a large community cohort of children and adolescents. We evaluated 1877 participants and their caregivers at baseline and after 3 years to assess various demographic, prenatal, perinatal, childhood adversity, and psychopathological factors. Mean age at baseline was 10.2 years (SD 1.9) and mean age at follow-up was 13.4 years (SD 1.9). Reports of OCS at baseline and follow-up were analyzed using latent variable models. At preliminary regression analysis, 15 parameters were significantly associated with higher OCS scores at follow-up. At subsequent regression analysis, we found that eight of these parameters remained significantly associated with higher follow-up OCS scores while being controlled by each other and by baseline OCS scores. The significant predictors of follow-up OCS were: lower socioeconomic status (p = 0.033); lower intelligence quotient (p = 0.013); lower age (p < 0.001); higher maternal stress level during pregnancy (p = 0.028); absence of breastfeeding (p = 0.017); parental baseline OCS (p = 0.038); youth baseline anxiety disorder (p = 0.023); and youth baseline OCS scores (p < 0.001). These findings may better inform clinicians and policymakers engaged in the mental health assessment and prevention in children and adolescents.
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