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Burden on the families of patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder: a pilot study

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 April 2020

L Magliano ,
P Tosini ,
M Guarneri ,
C Marasco  and
F Catapano
L Magliano
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, First Medical School, University of Naples, Largo Madonna delle Grazie, 80138 Naples, Italy
P Tosini
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, First Medical School, University of Naples, Largo Madonna delle Grazie, 80138 Naples, Italy
M Guarneri
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, First Medical School, University of Naples, Largo Madonna delle Grazie, 80138 Naples, Italy
C Marasco
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, First Medical School, University of Naples, Largo Madonna delle Grazie, 80138 Naples, Italy
F Catapano
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, First Medical School, University of Naples, Largo Madonna delle Grazie, 80138 Naples, Italy
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Summary

This study aimed to explore the burden on the key-relatives of a sample of patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder and a control sample of patients with major depression. The level of burden of relatives of obsessive-compulsive patients was moderate to severe in most of the explored situations, and did not differ significantly from that of the relatives of depressives. Social relationships were compromised in 74% of cases, and feelings of depression were recorded in 84% of cases. The level of subjective burden changed according to the relatives' sex, age and position in the family. The degree of objective burden correlated with the level of patients' disability, whereas that of subjective burden correlated with the severity of patients' obsessive-compulsive symptomatology.

Keywords

family burdenobsessive-compulsive disordermajor depression
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European Psychiatry , Volume 11 , Issue 4 , 1996 , pp. 192 - 197
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Copyright © Elsevier, Paris 1996

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