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The association of schizophrenia symptoms clusters with obsessive compulsive symptoms

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2020

E. Theochari
Affiliation:
Psychiatric Hospital of Attica “Dromokaiteio”, Tarsi, Athens Chaidari, Greece
E. Tsaltas
Affiliation:
Athens University Medical School, Experimental Psychology Laboratory, 1st Department of Psychiatry, Athens, Greece
D. Kontis
Affiliation:
Psychiatric Hospital of Attica, Cognitive Rehabilitation Unit, Athens, Greece

Abstract

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Introduction

Thirty percent of individuals with schizophrenia demonstrate obsessive compulsive symptoms (OCSs). There is conflicting data on the effects of antipsychotic medication on OCSs in schizophrenia. The delineation of the relationship of OCSs with positive, negative and general psychopathology symptoms has theoretical and treatment implications.

Objectives

To investigate the relationship among OCSs with the symptoms clusters in schizophrenia.

Methods

We recruited 110 chronic schizophrenia patients and assessed OCSs (Yale-Brown Scale) and schizophrenia symptoms (Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale). In order to investigate the relationship of OCSs with clusters of schizophrenia symptoms, we conducted correlation analyses between YBOCS total scores or obsession or compulsion subscores with the PANSS symptoms scores (total, positive, negative and general psychopathology) and the cognitive scores derived from CANTAB. We re-conducted these correlations for the sub groups with clinically detectable OCSs (YBOCS > 8) and clinically significant OCSs (YBOCS > 14).

Results

The only significant correlation was that of scores of OCSs with PANSS general psychopathology scores (rho = 0.190, P = 0.047). Obsessions and compulsions did not significantly correlate with positive or negative symptom clusters. No significant correlation between OCSs and schizophrenia symptoms were detected in the subgroups with clinically detectable or significant OCSs.

Conclusions

OCSs appear to be a separate symptom cluster in the context of schizophrenia, suggesting that OCSs cannot be expected to be influenced by standard antipsychotic treatments.

Disclosure of interest

The authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

Type
e-Poster Walk: Schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders – Part 5
Copyright
Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2017
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