THE OCCURRENCE RATE OF OBSESSIVE AND COMPULSIVE SYMPTOMS (OCS) AMONG THE PATIENTS SUFFERING FROM DEPRESSION

Aim of Study: This study was carried out to find out the occurrence rate of obsessive and compulsive symptoms (OCS) among the patients suffering from depression. Study Design: A cross-sectional study. Study Place and Duration: This study was carried out for the duration of one year starting from June, 2018 to May,2019 at Allied hospital Faisalabad, Pakistan. Methodology: A total number of 600 patients suffering from depression was selected in our study. With the assistance of senior medical officer or a consultant psychiatrist carried out the diagnosis of depression and related health problems as per 10th revision of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases (ISCD). Included all those patients of depression who were more than 18 years of age and were willing to participate in the study. Excluded all those who were not willing, having family history of obsessive compulsive, severe physical diseases, drugs addictive and other psychiatric diseases. Also used the Yale Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale and Beck Depression Inventory scale to evaluate the depression level and its symptoms. All collected data was analyzed via SPSS 20. Results: We selected a total number of 600 patients of depression for our study. There were 271 (45.17%) male patients and 329 (54.83%) were female patients. Mean age of the male patients was 35.17±12.39 years ranging from 18 years of age to 73 years. Mean age of female patients was 33.67±13.27 years ranging from 18 years of age to 70 years. According to the levels of depression as moderate, mild and severe there was 233 (38.83%), 193 (32.17%) and 174 (29%) patients accordingly. Additionally, obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) was observed in 196 (32.67%) patients among which there was patients of mild depression as 29.59% (58), patients of moderate depression were 35.72% (70) and patients with severe depression were 34.69% (68). Conclusion: At the end of our study we concluded that one third patients of our study was having obsessive compulsive symptoms (OCS). The moderate depression patients have the highest occurrence rate of OCS. Subclinical, mild OCS and moderate OCS were most common in patients with moderate depression whereas severe OCS and extreme OCS were most common in patients with severe depression. Keywords: Compulsion, Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), obsessive and compulsive symptoms (OCS), Depression, Obsession