Volume : 6, Issue : 11, November - 2017

Prevalence of Obsessive Compulsive symptoms in Headache.

Dr. Abhishek Kumar, Dr. Subhas Soren, Dr. Ashok Kumar Prasad, Dr. Ajay Kumar Bakhla

Abstract :

<p>&nbsp;<b style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;">Aim:</span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:&#10;justify;line-height:200%;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;">To find out the prevalence of obsessive compulsive symptoms / disorder among patients of headache.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:&#10;justify;line-height:200%;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;">Methodology:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:&#10;justify;line-height:200%;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;">Patients with headache diagnosed clinically at psychiatric out patients department were selected for the study. Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale was applied to find out the prevalence and nature of obsessive compulsive symptoms.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:&#10;justify;line-height:200%;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;">Results:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:&#10;justify;line-height:200%;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;">A total of 120 patients were participated and it was found that 6.67% of headache patients had obsessive compulsive disorder.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:&#10;justify;line-height:200%;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;">Conclusion:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:&#10;justify;line-height:200%;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;">The prevalence of obsessive compulsive disorder among the patients of headache was found to be 6.67%.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p>