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Interpersonal attachment insecurity and emotional attachment to possessions partly mediate the relationship between childhood trauma and hoarding symptoms in a non-clinical sample
This study provides evidence for a novel way by which traumatic life events may influence hoarding symptomatology via attachment to significant others and object attachment. Our findings are limited by the use of a cross-sectional design; however, they support the growing body of research which points to the importance of early adverse events and attachment difficulties in the aetiology of hoarding. (Source: Journal of Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders)
Source: Journal of Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders - December 4, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Validation of the Dimensional Obsessive-Compulsive Scale for Mexican Population
Publication date: Available online 30 November 2018Source: Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related DisordersAuthor(s): Beatriz Treviño de la Garza, Noah Berman, Brian Fisak, Norma Ruvalcaba-Romero, Julia Gallegos-GuajardoAbstractThe Dimensional Obsessive-Compulsive Scale (DOCS) is a self-report instrument that addresses significant limitations of previous obsessive-compulsive (OC) symptom measures by separately assessing the severity of four OC symptom dimensions: contamination, responsibility for harm, unacceptable thoughts, and symmetry. Notably, no research has culturally adapted or validated the DOCS for the Mexic...
Source: Journal of Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders - November 30, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Intolerance of Uncertainty in Hoarding Disorder
ConclusionsElevated IU is associated with specific hoarding symptom clusters and may be an important target for HD treatment. (Source: Journal of Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders)
Source: Journal of Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders - November 29, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Contamination-fear in subclinical obsessive-compulsive disorder: A further proof for no preferential processing of disorder-related stimuli
Publication date: Available online 23 November 2018Source: Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related DisordersAuthor(s): Anke Haberkamp, Filipp Schmidt, Jana Hansmeier, Julia Anna GlombiewskiAbstractHow do individuals with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) process and respond to images of rotten food or dirty toilets? In contrast to other fear-related disorders, evidence for attentional biases and preferential processing of disorder-related stimuli in samples of OCD is mixed. To address methodological problems of previous studies and to increase validity, we used two independent samples of participants with contaminati...
Source: Journal of Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders - November 24, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Relationship Between Symptom Severity, Psychiatric Comorbidity, Social/Occupational Impairment, and Suicidality in Hoarding Disorder
We examined these relationships in 313 treatment seeking individuals with HD, measuring hoarding severity with the Saving Inventory, Revised and functional impairment with the Activities of Daily Living for Hoarding Disorder (ADL-H). We created a composite social/occupational function variable assessing employment, cohabitation, and marriage. A path analysis was used to assess the relationship between social functioning, occupational functioning, hoarding related functional impairment in activities of daily living, hoarding severity, psychiatric burden, and suicidality in HD. At least one lifetime psychiatric comorbidity w...
Source: Journal of Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders - November 14, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Body Dysmorphic Disorder Symptoms and Quality of Life: The Role of Clinical and Demographic Variables
Publication date: Available online 13 November 2018Source: Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related DisordersAuthor(s): Sophie C. Schneider, Cynthia M. Turner, Eric A. Storch, Jennifer L. HudsonAbstractBody dysmorphic disorder (BDD) is associated with low quality of life (QOL) in clinical samples. It is unclear whether QOL is also associated with BDD symptoms in non-clinical samples, and if so, whether related demographic or clinical variables may also be associated with QOL. Questionnaires were used to assess demographics, QOL, and symptoms of BDD, depression, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), eating disord...
Source: Journal of Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders - November 14, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Anxiety Sensitivity Does not Predict Treatment Outcome or Treatment Length in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Related Anxiety Disorders
Publication date: Available online 13 November 2018Source: Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related DisordersAuthor(s): Caroline M.B. Kwee, Marcel A. van den HoutAbstractThe present study aimed to replicate the findings of Blakey, Abramowitz, Reuman, Leonard, and Riemann (2017) that higher anxiety sensitivity (AS) predicted worse treatment outcome in 187 patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), treated with cognitive-behavioral therapy. We also tested whether this finding is observed in other anxiety (related) disorders and if AS would predict treatment length. Assuming that exposure assignments would be more ...
Source: Journal of Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders - November 14, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Content overlap between youth OCD scales: Heterogeneity among symptoms probed and implications
Publication date: Available online 2 November 2018Source: Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related DisordersAuthor(s): Rachel Visontay, Matthew Sunderland, Jessica Grisham, Tim SladeAbstractAssessing obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) in paediatric populations is complex, and a number of scales have been developed or validated for this purpose. As is the case with instruments measuring other mental health disorders, it is often assumed that youth OCD scales assess the same construct and can be used interchangeably. However, the extent to which this is true is unknown. One way to assess this – beyond calculating conve...
Source: Journal of Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders - November 3, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

The role of behavioral inhibition, perceived parental rearing, and adverse life events in adolescents and young adults with incident obsessive-compulsive disorder
Publication date: Available online 31 October 2018Source: Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related DisordersAuthor(s): Patrizia D. Hofer, Karina Wahl, Andrea H. Meyer, Marcel Miché, Katja Beesdo-Baum, Hans-Ulrich Wittchen, Roselind LiebAbstractThe role of behavioral inhibition (BI), parental rearing, and adverse life events in the development of obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) is unresolved. We prospectively examined whether BI and perceived parental rearing predicted the subsequent first onset of OCD and whether BI moderated the association between perceived parental rearing/adverse life events and the first ons...
Source: Journal of Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders - November 1, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

The Appearance Anxiety Inventory: Factor Structure and Associations with Appearance-based Rejection Sensitivity and Social Anxiety
Publication date: Available online 26 October 2018Source: Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related DisordersAuthor(s): Carly Roberts, Melanie J. Zimmer-Gembeck, Cassie Lavell, Takayuki Miyamoto, Eva Gregertsen, Lara J. FarrellAbstractThe 10-item Appearance Anxiety Inventory (AAI; Veale et al., 2013) was developed to assess cognitive processes and behaviours characteristic of Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD). Although the AAI has a number of advantages for research and is widely used, the structure of it has only been evaluated in one previous study. The aim of this study was to conduct an independent evaluation of the AAI...
Source: Journal of Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders - October 27, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

OC Symptoms in African American Young Adults: The Associations Between Racial Discrimination, Racial Identity, & Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms
This study examined the association between racial discrimination and OC symptom distress over time, as well as how racial identity moderates this relationship. Participants were 171 African American young adults who completed measures of racial discrimination, racial identity, and OC symptom distress. Latent profile analysis revealed three patterns of racial identity: Multiculturalist, Race-Focused, and Humanist. Racial discrimination frequency at Time 1 was positively associated with OC symptom distress one year later for the Race-Focused racial identity group, but unrelated to OC symptom distress for the Multiculturalis...
Source: Journal of Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders - October 26, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Effects of Psychoeducation on Attitudes Towards Individuals with Pedophilic Sexual intrusive thoughts
Publication date: Available online 19 October 2018Source: Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related DisordersAuthor(s): Colter Snethen, Debbie M. WarmanAbstractThe present study was an examination of the impact of education on understanding of and attitudes towards individuals with pedophilic intrusive thoughts. Participants (N = 94) were randomly assigned to read a vignette about a target with intrusive pedophilic sexual thoughts they were told was diagnosed by a doctor as having 1) Pedophilia, 2) OCD, or 3) no diagnostic label. Participants were asked to provide their own diagnosis of the target and provide their attit...
Source: Journal of Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders - October 21, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Adaptation and validation of the dimensional DSM-5 obsessive-compulsive related disorder scales in adolescents: preliminary data
Publication date: Available online 15 October 2018Source: Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related DisordersAuthor(s): B. Moreno-Amador, J.A. Piqueras, T. Rodríguez-Jiménez, J.C. Marzo, D. Mataix-ColsAbstractThe DSM-5 introduced a new chapter called obsessive-compulsive and related disorders (OCRDs), which includes four disorders along with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD): body dysmorphic disorder (BDD), hoarding disorder (HD), trichotillomania (hair pulling disorder) (TTM) and excoriation (skin picking) disorder (SPD). The DSM-5 OCRDs subworkgroup developed several short self-report scales for BDD, HD, TTM, and S...
Source: Journal of Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders - October 16, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

The role of activation level and emotion regulation strategies in skin-picking behaviours. Findings in non-clinical sample
Publication date: Available online 18 September 2018Source: Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related DisordersAuthor(s): Katarzyna Prochwicz, Joanna Kłosowska, Alina Kałużna-Wielobób (Source: Journal of Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders)
Source: Journal of Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders - September 19, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Squalor in Community-Referred Hoarded Homes
Publication date: Available online 23 August 2018Source: Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related DisordersAuthor(s): May Luu, Nathanael Lauster, Christiana Bratiotis, Jesse Edsell-Vetter, Sheila R. WoodyAbstractDomestic squalor is a difficult topic to study; residents of squalid homes are unlikely to volunteer for research due to factors such as stigma or poor insight. Although squalor and hoarding are distinct constructs, extant research suggests squalor occurs more commonly in hoarding than in the general population, but little is known about the circumstances under which squalor develops in hoarded homes. The curren...
Source: Journal of Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders - August 24, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research