ABSTRACT
Objective:
To explore childhood traumatic experiences of OCD
patients who were also diagnosed
personality disorders (PDs) and those without PDs.
Methods:
SCID-I/P was administrated to
diagnose OCD
patients. PDQ+4 and PDI-IV were then administrated to 44 OCD subjects to determine whether they also suffered from
personality disorders. Childhood maltreatment experiences of the sample were measured with
Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ).50 normal control were also collected and subjected to CTQ-SF tests.
Results:
32 of 44 (72%) OCD
patients also met
DSM-IV criteria for
personality disorders. OCD
patients scored significantly higher than normal control in CTQ-SF (Childhood Truma Questionuaire-28 Short Form) and in all domains with the exception of
physical abuse. Comparison between OCD subjects with PDs and normal control, the former scored significantly higher in
emotional abuse (55.10/32.54),
sex abuse (49.63/36.30), physical neglect (52.03/34.76), and emotional neglect domains (55.84/32.32). Whereas OCD subjects without PDs only scored significantly higher in emotional neglect domains compared with normal control (42.50/28.26).
Conclusions:
Subjects with PDs experienced more severe traumatic events during their early
life. "pure OCD"
patients, however, might experienced more emotional neglect.
