ArticleJournal of obsessive-compulsive and related disorders2021
The impact of the coronavirus pandemic on specific symptom dimensions and severity in OCD: A comparison before and during COVID-19 in the context of stress responses.
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- A narrative systematic review of changes in mental health symptoms from before to during the COVID-19 pandemic.Psychological medicine · 2024Pooled it
- Prevalence of obsessive-compulsive disorders (OCD) symptoms among health care workers in COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC psychiatry · 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
- Associations between psychological inflexibility and mental health problems during the COVID-19 pandemic: A three-level meta-analytic review.Journal of affective disorders · 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
- Rethinking mental disorders in COVID-19: evidence from prepandemic longitudinal data.Current opinion in psychiatry · 2026Review
- 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
- Atypical onset of obsessive-compulsive disorder at age 50 following post-SARS-COV-2 syndrome: A case report.PCN reports : psychiatry and clinical neurosciences · 2025Article
- The long-term impact of the covid-19 pandemic on patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder.Medicine · 2025Article
- Short-term outcomes associated with fluoxetine, low-frequency rTMS, and their combination in first-onset adolescent OCD: a single-center retrospective cohort.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Two Years after the Beginning of COVID-19: Comparing Families Who Had or Did not Have Patients with COVID-19 on Health Beliefs and Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms.Iranian journal of psychiatry · 2023Article
- The Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Patients with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD).Clinical neuropsychiatry · 2023Article
- Longitudinal Course of Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms During the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Systematic Review of Three Years of Prospective Cohort Studies.Clinical neuropsychiatry · 2023Review
- Severity and Changes in OCD Dimensions during COVID-19: A Two-Year Longitudinal Study.Brain sciences · 2023Article
- Effects of strict COVID-19 lockdown on patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder compared to a clinical and a nonclinical sample.European psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists · 2023Article
- Prevalence and predicors of COVID-centred obsessive compulsive disorder among Iranian COVID-19 recovered individuals: a Bayesian analysis.BMC psychiatry · 2023Article
- Year of Zoom in a Year of Doom: Lessons Learned Delivering ERP Remotely During the COVID-19 Pandemic.Cognitive and behavioral practice · 2023Article
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Abstract
The present study aimed to compare a group of patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD; N = 270) before and during COVID-19 on specific obsessive-compulsive (OC) symptom dimensions and symptom severity. In addition, the study aimed to evaluate the associations of COVID-19-related stress responses with change in OC symptom dimensions and severity of symptoms as the result of the pandemic. Results showed that patients with OCD had higher scores on all OC symptom dimensions and symptom severity during the pandemic as compared to their scores from before the pandemic. Thus, the effect of COVID-19 is not limited to an increase in fears of contamination alone, but occurs across other symptom dimensions, including responsibility for harm, unacceptable thoughts, and symmetry. In addition, regression analyses indicated that COVID-19-related stress responses significantly predicted the observed increase in specific OC symptom dimensions and general severity, after controlling for pre-COVID-19 scores of symptoms and severity. The increase of symptoms as the result of COVID-19 might be best understood in the context of a non-specific stress-related response similar to the effects observed in non-clinical and other clinical populations.
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