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The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on patients with OCD: Effects of contamination symptoms and remission state before the quarantine in a preliminary naturalistic study.
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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
- A narrative systematic review of changes in mental health symptoms from before to during the COVID-19 pandemic.Psychological medicine · 2024Pooled 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
- Association between the COVID-19 pandemic and psychiatric symptoms in people with preexisting obsessive-compulsive, eating, anxiety, and mood disorders: a systematic review and meta-analysis of before-after studies.Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences · 2023Pooled it
- Mental Health Impact of Early Stages of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Individuals with Pre-Existing Mental Disorders: A Systematic Review of Longitudinal Research.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Pooled it
- One year on: What we have learned about the psychological effects of COVID-19 social restrictions: A meta-analysis.Current opinion in psychology · 2022Pooled it
- The Acute Impact of the Early Stages of COVID-19 Pandemic in People with Pre-Existing Psychiatric Disorders: A Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Pooled it
- Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder During the COVID-19 Pandemic: a Systematic Review.Current psychiatry reports · 2021Pooled it
- The experience of individuals placed in quarantine: A systematic review, meta-summary, and meta-synthesis.Public health nursing (Boston, Mass.) · 2021Pooled it
- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder During Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19): 2- and 6-Month Follow-Ups in a Clinical Trial.The international journal of neuropsychopharmacology · 2021Trial
- Rethinking mental disorders in COVID-19: evidence from prepandemic longitudinal data.Current opinion in psychiatry · 2026Review
- Anxiety and Age, but Not OCD Diagnosis, Predict Infection-Preventive Behaviours in Adolescents During COVID-19.International journal of developmental neuroscience : the official journal of the International Society for Developmental Neuroscience · 2026Article
- Vaccines as a psychological shield: the role of vaccine acceptance in mitigating COVID-19 obsession, burnout, and death anxiety among medical personnel.BMC health services research · 2026Article
- The Long-Term Effects of COVID-19 Stress on Mental Health and Identity Among College Students.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- 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
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- Patterns of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Admissions Before and After the Onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Take Home Messages from a Clinical Population.Psychiatry and clinical psychopharmacology · 2024Article
- The Impact of COVID-19 on Patients With Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder in Gulf Countries: A Narrative Review.Cureus · 2024Review
- Life-threatening obsessive-compulsive disorder precipitated by the COVID-19 pandemic in an adolescent.BJPsych bulletin · 2023Article
- Tracking demands for seeking psychological help before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: a quanti-qualitative study.Psicologia, reflexao e critica : revista semestral do Departamento de Psicologia da UFRGS · 2023Article
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Abstract
The containment measures implemented to reduce the progression of the COVID-19 pandemic can increase the risk of serious mental disorders, including obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). The general fear of getting infected and the importance given to personal hygiene, may have a negative impact on this clinical population. In a group of patients with OCD who had completed an evidence-based therapeutic path for OCD before the quarantine, this study evaluated the changes on OCD symptoms during the quarantine and investigated the effects of contamination symptoms and remission state before the quarantine on OCD symptom worsening during the quarantine. The Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive (Y-BOCS) Severity score, administered before the quarantine, was re-administered after six weeks since the beginning of the complete lockdown. A significant increase in obsession and compulsion severity emerged. Remission status on OCD symptoms and having contamination symptoms before the quarantine were significantly associated with more elevated OCD symptom worsening during the quarantine. To our knowledge, this is the first study which assessed OCD symptoms at the COVID-19 time. Our results support the need to improve relapse prevention during the period of social restrictions and develop alternative strategies such as online consultations and digital psychiatric management.
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