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| Author(s): |
Roseli Gedanke Shavitt
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Medicina (FM/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2002-08-28 |
| Examining board members: |
Euripedes Constantino Miguel Filho;
Valentim Gentil Filho;
Clarice Gorenstein;
José Alberto Del Porto;
Albina Rodrigues Torres
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| Advisor: | Euripedes Constantino Miguel Filho |
| Abstract | |
This study investigated predictive factors of treatment response in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). Forty-one adults with OCD received exclusively clomipramine for 14 weeks. OCD symptoms and phenomenology of compulsions were assessed by the Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale (YBOCS) and the USP-Harvard Repetitive Behaviors Interview, respectively. Response, in terms of percent decrease of the initial YBOCS score, was rated blind to the investigated factors. By the end of a linear regression model, the presence of sensory phenomena preceding the compulsions and being married/cohabiting were associated with a greater response to clomipramine (AU) | |