Gender-related romantic attachment and serum oxytocin level difference in adult patients with obsessive compulsive disorder

Middle East Current Psychiatry

Table 3 Correlation between oxytocin levels with other disease criteria among cases

Variables	Oxytocin level
Variables	r	P value	Sig.
Age (years)	0.05	0.8	NS
Education years (years)	0.08	0.6	NS
Age of onset (years)	0.05	0.7	NS
Illness duration (years)	−0.03	0.9	NS
OCD severity scores as regarding Y-BOCS
Obsession severity score	−0.49	0.001	VHS
Compulsion severity score	−0.55	0.001	VHS
Y-BOCS severity (total score)	−0.53	0.001	VHS
Romantic attachment as regarding the ECR-R
Anxiety score	0.21	0.2	NS
Avoidance score	0.31	0.06	NS