Obsessions and suicidality in youth suffering from bipolar I disorder

Middle East Current Psychiatry

Table 2 Comparison between groups A and group B regarding the age of onset of illness, & scores of different psychometric tools

	*Group A: Bipolar Disorder Patients with OCD*		*Group B: Bipolar Disorder Patients without OCD*		P value
	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	P value
Age of onset	18.85	0.88	20.91	1.34	< 0.001
DY-BOCS total score	30.23	0.43	18.50	1.88	< 0.001
HDRS score	9.19	2.56	5.50	2.51	< 0.001
YMRS	5.08	0.74	1.59	0.77	< 0.001
BSSI score	10.85	0.88	4.56	0.50	< 0.001

BSSI Beck Scale for Suicidal Ideation, YMRS Young Mania Rating Scale, HDRS Hamilton Depression Rating Scale, DY-BOCS Dimensional Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale, Group A bipolar disorder patients with OCD, Group B bipolar disorder patients without OCD. ρ < 0.05 is considered significant