@article{ref1,
title="Obsessive-compulsive disorders versus obsessive-compulsive syndromes. Comparative study of two surveys of the general population and of psychiatric consultants",
journal="Annales medico-psychologiques",
year="1995",
author="Hantouche, E. G. and Bourgeois, M.",
volume="153",
number="5",
pages="314-325",
abstract="Recent epidemiological studies were conducted in the general population, showing high rate prevalence of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), estimated between 2 and 3% in the community. Although investigation of OCD prevalence had challenged the &quot;real&quot; definition of diagnostic threshold-criteria. Recent data from the Zurich study and from a large french clinical survey had confirmed the high prevalence and the validity of the subsyndromal forms of OCD (which are labelled as OCS or Obsessive-Compulsive Syndroms). In the Zurich study, lifetime prevalence rates of OCS was estimated to 5.5%. Point prevalence rates of OCS was recorded at 19.2% in the French survey (population of 4364 new patients seeking psychiatric help). In the two studies, a significant association between OCS and other disorders (major depression, dysthymia, phobic disorders) was found. Lifetime suicide attempts rate was found in 16-18% of subjects suffering from OCS (respectively in the Zurich and the French studies). These results confirmed that OCS (or subsyndromal forms of OCD) seemed to represent a clinically valid subgroup which modern classification systems fail to recognize, requiring treatment.<p /><p>Language: fr</p>",
language="fr",
issn="0003-4487",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}