ArticleIrish journal of psychological medicine2020
Acute exacerbation of OCD symptoms precipitated by media reports of COVID-19.
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- Mapping research trends in obsessive-compulsive disorder before and after the COVID-19 pandemic: a bibliometric analysis focusing on its molecular mechanisms.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Pooled it
- 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
- Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder During the COVID-19 Pandemic-A Systematic Review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Pooled it
- Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder During the COVID-19 Pandemic: a Systematic Review.Current psychiatry reports · 2021Pooled it
- Psychometric Evaluation of the Over-Cleanliness Scale (OCS) Amid Covid-19 Pandemic and the Role of Perceived Stress and OCD Proneness on Over-Cleanliness: A Cross-Sectional Study.Health science reports · 2025Article
- The Impact of COVID-19 on Patients With Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder in Gulf Countries: A Narrative Review.Cureus · 2024Review
- Protective and Overprotective Behaviors against COVID-19 Outbreak: Media Impact and Mediating Roles of Institutional Trust and Anxiety.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on obsessive-compulsive symptoms in the Swiss general population.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Investigating the Association Between Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Symptom Subtypes and Health Anxiety as Impacted by the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cross-Sectional Study.Psychological reports · 2022Article
- Comparison between emerging adults and adults in terms of contamination fear, post-COVID-19 PTSD and psychiatric comorbidity.Current psychology (New Brunswick, N.J.) · 2022Article
- The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the mental health of children with psychiatric diagnoses - multidimensional CCPCA Model.BMC psychiatry · 2022Article
- Hand Washing: When Ritual Behavior Protects! Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms in Young People during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Narrative Review.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Review
- College student mental health: Understanding changes in psychological symptoms in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States.Current psychology (New Brunswick, N.J.) · 2022Article
- Modulating neuroinflammation in COVID-19 patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder.Journal of psychiatric research · 2022Review
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- Viability Study of Machine Learning-Based Prediction of COVID-19 Pandemic Impact in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Patients.Frontiers in neuroinformatics · 2022Article
- Initial Presentation of OCD and Psychosis in an Adolescent during the COVID-19 Pandemic.Case reports in psychiatry · 2022Article
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- Effect of COVID-19 and sociocultural milieu on the psychopathology of mental health disorders: A hospital-based study.Industrial psychiatry journal · 2021Article
- Impact of COVID-19 on People With Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.Focus (American Psychiatric Publishing) · 2021Article
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Abstract
The emergence of COVID-19 has recently dominated public discourse given its serious impact on vulnerable patient groups. Advice in relation to reducing risk of contamination has justifiably been circulated widely during the COVID-19 crisis. Contamination fear is a common obsessional theme in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), and there is a need for increased research on how infectious disease epidemics affect patients with OCD. We present the case of a lady in her 30s with a history of well-controlled contamination OCD who presented acutely with a significant exacerbation of OCD symptoms precipitated by media reports of COVID-19. The case highlights the potential psychological impacts of infectious disease epidemics on individuals with mental illness. We also highlight some of the risks posed to such patients in response to epidemics such as the COVID-19 crisis.
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