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Increase in the percentage of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) symptoms during the covid pandemic and quarantine at santiago, chile

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 August 2021

C. Zarate
Affiliation:
School Of Medicine, Department Of Psychiatry, Universidad San Sebastián, Santiago, Chile Psychiatry, Clínica Psiquiátrica Universitaria, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
P. Binder
Affiliation:
School Of Medicine, Department Of Psychiatry, Universidad San Sebastián, Santiago, Chile
V. Valdivia
Affiliation:
School Of Medicine, Department Of Psychiatry, Universidad San Sebastián, Santiago, Chile
H. Stappung
Affiliation:
School Of Medicine, Department Of Psychiatry, Universidad San Sebastián, Santiago, Chile
J.T. Saavedra Perez De Arce*
Affiliation:
School Of Medicine, Department Of Psychiatry, Universidad San Sebastián, Santiago, Chile
*
*Corresponding author.

Abstract

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Introduction

In pandemic conditions, obsessive rituals such as hygiene can be considered adaptive together with the extreme measures that must be followed to avoid contagion by Covid-19, we suggest that the stress the pandemic has caused may result in an increase in the percentage of OCD symptom and severity in the Chilean population at Santiago.

Objectives

Study OCD symptoms and their severity during a contamination pandemic such as COVID and quarentine, and compare them to national reports of OCD prevalence in Chile. We hypothesize that OCD symptoms would be higher in these stressfull situations.

Methods

An online voluntary and annonymous survey was carried out asking about sociodemographic variables and the Y-BOCKS scale, an OCD symptom severity scale version already validated in Chile.

Results

497 completed the survey and Y-BOCKS scale. 241 people which is equivalent to 48% of the sample presented scores that classified them as having OCD.Off these 30% had mild, 12% moderate and 7% severe symptoms. 85% of them were inquarantine for more than 2 months.

Conclusions

These results are above the 2% of OCD reported at the national level. These percentages may be due to a smaller sample size, but even so, the high percentages of people with symptoms during COVID and those who were in quarentine or lockdown for 2 months or more, stand out. Future analysis and research needs to be made. We ask ourselves wether is Covid, quarentine, or both and of so, how much each pf these contribute to these high percentages of OCD symptoms observed.

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