Obsessive compulsive symptoms severity among children and adolescents during COVID-19 first wave in Israel.
COVID-19
Course
Exacerbation
OCD
Journal
Journal of obsessive-compulsive and related disorders
ISSN: 2211-3649
Titre abrégé: J Obsessive Compuls Relat Disord
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101580381
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Jan 2021
Jan 2021
Historique:
received:
17
09
2020
revised:
20
11
2020
accepted:
28
11
2020
pubmed:
9
12
2020
medline:
9
12
2020
entrez:
8
12
2020
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Several current publications have considered persons with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) as particularly vulnerable during the COVID-19 period, and to require more frequent symptom monitoring. The purpose of this study was to evaluate whether OCD exacerbated during the first wave of COVID-19 in children and adolescents. Twenty-nine children and adolescents with OCD were evaluated in the midst of the first outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in Israel (April-May 2020). Obsessive-compulsive symptoms (OCS) were assessed using the Clinical Global Impression Scale (CGI), by means of a functional questionnaire and by the Obsessive-Compulsive Inventory-child version (OCI-CV) questionnaires. Obsessive-compulsive symptoms were not found to have exacerbated during the period investigated, as evident by a lack of change in CGI severity scores and by improvement rather than deterioration among more participants, based on the CGI improvement scores. Additionally, the children and adolescents reported better general functioning during the COVID-19 period and had relatively low scores on the OCI-CV scale. Our findings indicate that Israeli children and adolescents with OCD coped well with COVID-19 during the first two months of the pandemic and mostly did not experience exacerbation of OCS. However, due to the short duration of exposure to the pandemic at the time of the study, social isolation and lockdown might have masked OCS; thus, further longitudinal studies are needed.
Identifiants
pubmed: 33288995
doi: 10.1016/j.jocrd.2020.100610
pii: S2211-3649(20)30131-7
pmc: PMC7709811
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
100610Informations de copyright
© 2020 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
The authors have no conflicts of interest to declare.
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