Obsessive-compulsive disorder and trichotillomania a phenomenological comparison 英文参考文献.docVIP

BMC Psychiatry BioMedCentral Research article Open Access Obsessive-compulsive disorder and trichotillomania: a phenomenological comparison Christine Lochner*1, Soraya Seedat1, Pieter L du Toit1, Daniel G Nel2, Dana JH Niehaus1, Robin Sandler1 and Dan J Stein1 Address: 1MRC Unit on Anxiety and Stress Disorders, Department of Psychiatry, University of Stellenbosch, Cape Town, South Africa and 2Center for Statistical Consultation, Department of Statistics Actuarial science, University of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch, South Africa Email: Christine Lochner* - cl2@sun.ac.za; Soraya Seedat - sseedat@sun.ac.za; Pieter L du Toit - pieter.du-toit@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk; Daniel G Nel - dgnel@sun.ac.za; Dana JH Niehaus - djhn@sun.ac.za; Robin Sandler - rsandler@kingsley.co.za; Dan J Stein - djs2@sun.ac.za * Corresponding author Published: 13 January 2005 Received: 03 September 2004 Accepted: 13 January 2005 BMC Psychiatry 2005, 5:2 doi:10.1186/1471-244X-5-2 This article is available from: /1471-244X/5/2 ? 2005 Lochner et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: Similarities between obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and trichotillomania (TTM) have been widely recognized. Nevertheless, there is evidence of important differences between these two disorders. Some authors have conceptualized the disorders as lying on an OCD spectrum of conditions. Methods: Two hundred and seventy eight OCD patients (n = 278: 148 male; 130 female) and 54 TTM patients (n = 54; 5 male; 49 female) of all ages were interviewed. Female patients were compared on select demographic and clinical variables, including comorbid axis I and II disorders, and temperament/character profiles. Results: OCD patients