Quality of Life in Patients with Hoarding Disorder

Publication date: Available online 18 December 2018Source: Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related DisordersAuthor(s): David F. Tolin, Akanksha Das, Lauren S. Hallion, Hannah C. Levy, Bethany M. Wootton, Michael C. StevensAbstractThe aim of this study was to investigate health-related quality of life (QoL) in patients with hoarding disorder (HD). Fifty-four patients with a primary diagnosis of HD, and 24 age- and sex-matched healthy control (HC) participants, completed a battery of questionnaires including the Medical Outcomes Study 36-item Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36), Saving Inventory-Revised, and Depression, Anxiety, Stress Scales. Compared to HC participants, those with HD reported poorer health-related QoL across all domains of the SF-36. When controlling for comorbid affective symptoms, HD participants scored lower than did HC participants in the QoL domains of social functioning, emotional well-being, role limitations due to emotional problems, vitality, and general health. HD symptom severity predicted, beyond the effects of affective symptoms, lower QoL in social functioning, emotional well-being, role limitations due to emotional problems, vitality, and general health.Hoarding disorder (HD), a newly recognized diagnosis in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5thEdition (DSM-5) (American Psychiatric Association, 2013), is defined as a persistent inability to discard possessions, often accompanied by excessive acquiring, resulting in sev...
Source: Journal of Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders - Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research