TY - JOUR
T1 - The rates of co-occurring behavioural addictions in treatment-seeking individuals with obsessive-compulsive disorder: a preliminary report
AU - Brakoulias, Vlasios
AU - Starcevic, Vladan
AU - Albert, Umberto
AU - Arumugham, Shyam Sundar
AU - Bailey, B.E.
AU - Belloch, Amparo
AU - Borda, Tania
AU - Dell'Osso, Liliana
AU - Elias, Jason A
AU - Falkenstein, Martha J
AU - Ferrao, Y.A.
AU - Fontenelle, Leonardo F.
AU - Jelinek, Lena
AU - Kay, Brian
AU - Lochner, Christine
AU - Maina, Giuseppe
AU - Marazziti, Donatella
AU - Matsunaga, Hisato
AU - Miguel, Euripedes C
AU - Morgado, Pedro
AU - Pasquini, M
AU - Perez Rivera, Rodrigo
AU - Potluri, Sriramya
AU - Reddy, Janardhan Y C
AU - Riemann, Brian C
AU - do Rosario, Maria Conceição
AU - Shavitt, Roseli G.
AU - Stein, D.J.
AU - Viswasam, Kirupumani
AU - Fineberg, Naomi
N1 - ©2020 The Authors. This is an accepted manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in International Journal of Psychiatry in Clinical Practice on 9 Jan 2020, available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/13651501.2019.1711424
PY - 2020/1/9
Y1 - 2020/1/9
N2 - Objectives: To assess the rates of co-occurring putative ‘behavioural addictions’ in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Methods: Twenty-three international centres specialising in the treatment of OCD were invited to participate in a survey of the rates of behavioural addictions and other relevant comorbidity within their samples. Results: Sixteen of 23 (69.6%) invited centres from 13 countries had sufficient data to participate in the survey. The use of validated diagnostic tools was discrepant, with most centres relying on a ‘clinical diagnosis’ to diagnose behavioural addictions. The final sample comprised of 6916 patients with a primary diagnosis of OCD. The reported rates of behavioural addictions were as follows: 8.7% for problematic internet use, 6.8% for compulsive sexual behaviour disorder, 6.4% for compulsive buying, 4.1% for gambling disorder and 3.4% for internet gaming disorder. Conclusions: Behavioural addictions should be better assessed for patients with OCD. The absence of diagnostic scales developed specifically for behavioural addictions and overlapping obsessive-compulsive phenomena such as compulsive checking of information on the internet may explain the relatively high rate of problematic internet use in this sample. The study encourages better efforts to assess and to conceptualise the relatedness of behavioural addictions to obsessive-compulsive ‘spectrum’ disorders.
AB - Objectives: To assess the rates of co-occurring putative ‘behavioural addictions’ in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Methods: Twenty-three international centres specialising in the treatment of OCD were invited to participate in a survey of the rates of behavioural addictions and other relevant comorbidity within their samples. Results: Sixteen of 23 (69.6%) invited centres from 13 countries had sufficient data to participate in the survey. The use of validated diagnostic tools was discrepant, with most centres relying on a ‘clinical diagnosis’ to diagnose behavioural addictions. The final sample comprised of 6916 patients with a primary diagnosis of OCD. The reported rates of behavioural addictions were as follows: 8.7% for problematic internet use, 6.8% for compulsive sexual behaviour disorder, 6.4% for compulsive buying, 4.1% for gambling disorder and 3.4% for internet gaming disorder. Conclusions: Behavioural addictions should be better assessed for patients with OCD. The absence of diagnostic scales developed specifically for behavioural addictions and overlapping obsessive-compulsive phenomena such as compulsive checking of information on the internet may explain the relatively high rate of problematic internet use in this sample. The study encourages better efforts to assess and to conceptualise the relatedness of behavioural addictions to obsessive-compulsive ‘spectrum’ disorders.
KW - Diagnosis
KW - behavioural addictions
KW - obsessive-compulsive disorder
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U2 - 10.1080/13651501.2019.1711424
DO - 10.1080/13651501.2019.1711424
M3 - Article
JO - International Journal of Psychiatry in Clinical Practice
JF - International Journal of Psychiatry in Clinical Practice
SN - 1365-1501
ER -