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Table 5 Association between insight and clinical and laboratory variables in OCD patients

From: Study of insight in patients with obsessive compulsive disorder and its relation to executive functions and serum brain-derived neurotrophic factor

 

Insight

P value

Poor

(n = 11)

Good to fair

(n = 29)

Family history of OCD

 Yes

3 (27.3%)

8 (27.6%)

 > 0.999

 No

8 (72.7%)

21 (72.4%)

Age at onset (years)

 Median

21

25

0.060

 IQR

14–30

20–32.5

Duration of illness (years)

 Median

6

4

0.003

 IQR

4–8

2–5

 Y-BOCS Severity

32

20

 < 0.001

28–35

16–23

Trail Making Test (second)

 Part A

66

60

0.207

60–84

50–80

 Part B

150

120

0.157

105–180

108–155

 BDNF (ng/ml)

0.3

0.64

 < 0.001

0.29–0.39

0.47–0.90

  1. Y-BOCS Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale, BDNF brain-derived neurotrophic factor
  2. Data are presented as frequency (%), median and IQR unless otherwise mentioned, statistical significance at P < 0.05
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