ArticleEuropean psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists2023
Effects of strict COVID-19 lockdown on patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder compared to a clinical and a nonclinical sample.
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- The Long-Term Effects of COVID-19 Stress on Mental Health and Identity Among College Students.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- The anxiety response of patients with severe psychiatric disorders to the recent public health crisis.BMC psychiatry · 2024Article
- Impact of Benzodiazepines and Illness Duration on Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder during COVID-19 in Italy: Exploring Symptoms' Evolutionary Benefits.Brain sciences · 2024Article
- Between compulsions and contagions: examining the protective role of OCD against COVID-19 in a large cohort study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Depression and Anxiety Symptoms "Among the Waves" of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and Adjustment Disorder Patients.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundSymptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) have been reported to increase during the COVID-19 lockdowns because of the hygiene requirements related to the pandemic. Patients with adjustment disorder (AD) may, in turn, represent a vulnerable population for identifiable stressors. In this study, we aimed at assessing potential symptoms changes in OCD patients during the lockdown in comparison with AD patients as well as versus healthy controls (HC).
methodsDuring the COVID-related lockdown, we enrolled 65 patients and 29 HC. Participants were tested with four clinical rating scales (Yale-Brown obsessive-compulsive scale and Brown Assessment of Beliefs Scale for OCD patients; Beck Depression Inventory-II and State-Trait Anxiety Inventory-Y for each group) that had been also administered just before the Italian lockdown.
resultsOur results showed that during the lockdown: (i) the symptoms of depression and anxiety increased in all groups, but this increase was most pronounced in HC (
conclusionsThe lockdown-induced psychological distress apparently changed the characteristics and the pattern of OCD symptoms expression but not their overall severity. This evidence confirms the heterogeneity and changing nature of OCD symptoms, strongly depending on the environmental circumstances.
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