Stressful life events and obsessive-compulsive disorder: Clinical features and symptom dimensions

Psychiatry Research

Volumn 197, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 259-264

  Rosso, Gianluca ^a   Albert, Umberto ^a   Asinari, Giovanni Francesco ^a   Bogetto, Filippo ^a   Maina, Giuseppe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Compulsions; Obsessions; OCD; Onset; Stressful events

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPULSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; ITALY; LIFE EVENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; ONSET AGE; PHYSICAL DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STRESS; STRESSFUL LIFE EVENT; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84865076822     PISSN: 01651781     EISSN: 18727123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2011.10.005     Document Type: Article

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