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The impact of COVID-19 on patients with OCD: A one-year follow-up study
BACKGROUND: Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, concerns regarding its psychological effects on people with preexisting psychiatric disorders have been raised, particularly obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Nevertheless, only a few longitudinal studies have been performed, and a more longst...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8803396/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35123340 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychires.2022.01.065 |
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author | Moreira-de-Oliveira, Maria E. de Menezes, Gabriela B. Loureiro, Carla P. Laurito, Luana D. Albertella, Lucy Fontenelle, Leonardo F. |
author_facet | Moreira-de-Oliveira, Maria E. de Menezes, Gabriela B. Loureiro, Carla P. Laurito, Luana D. Albertella, Lucy Fontenelle, Leonardo F. |
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description | BACKGROUND: Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, concerns regarding its psychological effects on people with preexisting psychiatric disorders have been raised, particularly obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Nevertheless, only a few longitudinal studies have been performed, and a more longstanding follow-up of a clinical sample is needed. In this study, our aim was to investigate the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on symptom changes in a sample of Brazilian OCD patients for about a one-year period. METHODS: Thirty OCD outpatients seen in a specialized OCD clinic in Rio de Janeiro were evaluated at baseline and after one year (during the pandemic). Sociodemographic and clinical variables were collected along with a questionnaire aimed at quantifying the number of stressful events related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Comparisons between two time points (pre vs. during COVID-19) and two subgroups (patients with vs without worsening of symptoms) were carried out. RESULTS: As a group, OCD patients treated with SRIs had an overall stabilization of symptoms throughout the follow-up period, regardless of the number of stressful experiences related to coronavirus (median baseline YBOCS remained 22.0 at follow-up). In addition, when individually analyzed, even those who reported an increase in their symptoms did not describe a greater number of COVID-19 related events. CONCLUSIONS: Patients with OCD, who were under treatment, did not show significant symptom deterioration as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Individual variations in OCD symptom severity did not seem to be related to experiences linked to coronavirus. |
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spelling | pubmed-88033962022-02-01 The impact of COVID-19 on patients with OCD: A one-year follow-up study Moreira-de-Oliveira, Maria E. de Menezes, Gabriela B. Loureiro, Carla P. Laurito, Luana D. Albertella, Lucy Fontenelle, Leonardo F. J Psychiatr Res Article BACKGROUND: Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, concerns regarding its psychological effects on people with preexisting psychiatric disorders have been raised, particularly obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Nevertheless, only a few longitudinal studies have been performed, and a more longstanding follow-up of a clinical sample is needed. In this study, our aim was to investigate the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on symptom changes in a sample of Brazilian OCD patients for about a one-year period. METHODS: Thirty OCD outpatients seen in a specialized OCD clinic in Rio de Janeiro were evaluated at baseline and after one year (during the pandemic). Sociodemographic and clinical variables were collected along with a questionnaire aimed at quantifying the number of stressful events related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Comparisons between two time points (pre vs. during COVID-19) and two subgroups (patients with vs without worsening of symptoms) were carried out. RESULTS: As a group, OCD patients treated with SRIs had an overall stabilization of symptoms throughout the follow-up period, regardless of the number of stressful experiences related to coronavirus (median baseline YBOCS remained 22.0 at follow-up). In addition, when individually analyzed, even those who reported an increase in their symptoms did not describe a greater number of COVID-19 related events. CONCLUSIONS: Patients with OCD, who were under treatment, did not show significant symptom deterioration as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Individual variations in OCD symptom severity did not seem to be related to experiences linked to coronavirus. Elsevier Ltd. 2022-03 2022-02-01 /pmc/articles/PMC8803396/ /pubmed/35123340 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychires.2022.01.065 Text en © 2022 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Article Moreira-de-Oliveira, Maria E. de Menezes, Gabriela B. Loureiro, Carla P. Laurito, Luana D. Albertella, Lucy Fontenelle, Leonardo F. The impact of COVID-19 on patients with OCD: A one-year follow-up study |
title | The impact of COVID-19 on patients with OCD: A one-year follow-up study |
title_full | The impact of COVID-19 on patients with OCD: A one-year follow-up study |
title_fullStr | The impact of COVID-19 on patients with OCD: A one-year follow-up study |
title_full_unstemmed | The impact of COVID-19 on patients with OCD: A one-year follow-up study |
title_short | The impact of COVID-19 on patients with OCD: A one-year follow-up study |
title_sort | impact of covid-19 on patients with ocd: a one-year follow-up study |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8803396/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35123340 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychires.2022.01.065 |
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