Investigating duration of illness and duration of untreated illness in obsessive compulsive disorder reveals patients remain at length pharmacologically untreated

Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) is a disabling condition, often associated with early onset and chronic course. Early onset combined to the secretiveness that frequently characterises the condition, as well as patient's beliefs that OC symptoms do not represent a medical condition and that...

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Published in:International journal of psychiatry in clinical practice 2019-10, Vol.23 (4), p.311-313
Main Authors: Dell'Osso, Bernardo, Benatti, Beatrice, Grancini, Benedetta, Vismara, Matteo, De Carlo, Vera, Cirnigliaro, Giovanna, Albert, Umberto, Viganò, Caterina
Format: Article
Language:English
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Humans
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder - therapy
Time-to-Treatment
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Summary:Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) is a disabling condition, often associated with early onset and chronic course. Early onset combined to the secretiveness that frequently characterises the condition, as well as patient's beliefs that OC symptoms do not represent a medical condition and that OCD can remit spontaneously, are all factors contributing to delayed diagnosis and first treatment, particularly of pharmacological nature. In this short report, authors performed a review of the most recent literature in the field. The current literature clearly delineates a duration of untreated illness of several years (around 7 years in the majority of the reports), which represented, on average, a portion ranging between the 40 and 70% of the overall duration of untreated illness.
ISSN:1365-1501
1471-1788
DOI:10.1080/13651501.2019.1621348