Alblowi MA, Alkhammash WM, Alzahrani TM, Hakeem MH, Alsarar SA, Alqahtani AA, Almutairi AM, Al Binhar TH. Prevalence of post-COVID symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder in Saudi Arabia. Neurosciences (Riyadh). 2023 Jan;28(1):27-35. doi: 10.17712/nsj.2023.1.20220068. PMID: 36617460; PMCID: PMC9987626.
A total of 356 patients were included in the analysis. Approximately 9.0% and 1.7% of the patients had a history of psychiatric disease and OCD diagnosis (respectively). The total symptom score was 32.8%. The most frequently reported domains were rumination of ideas (55.5%), re-checking compulsions (37.0%), and slowness (34.0%), while the least frequently reported domains included obsessive impulses (26.3%), obsessive images (26.5%), and religious compulsions (26.8%). Unlike other domains, the purity and cleanliness compulsions scores were significantly higher than the scale reference population. A higher total symptom score was observed in psychiatric patients (p=0.004) and, to a lesser extent, in OCD patients (p=0.250).
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