The effect of childhood trauma on the symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder with a mediating role of self-regulation in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder

Subject Areas : Clinical

farnaz radmehr ¹ , khodamorad momeni ² , jahangir karami ³ , omran davarinejad ⁴

1 - Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Razi University, Kermanshah, Iran
2 - Professor, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Razi University, Kermanshah, Iran
3 - Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Razi University, Kermanshah, Iran
4 - Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran

Received: 2022-05-15 Accepted : 2022-07-23 Published : 2024-09-25

Keywords: self-regulation, childhood trauma, obsessive-compulsive disorder,

Abstract :

The aim of this study investigated the effect of childhood trauma on the symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder with a mediating role of self-regulation in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder. In this descriptive correlational study, 300 patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (161 females and 139 males) referred to public and private psychiatric clinics in Kermanshah according to the inclusion and exclusion criteria and receiving a diagnosis Obsessive-compulsive disorder was selected by a psychiatrist based on structured clinical interview (DSM-5) randomly according to the number of their medical records. The instruments used in this study included Structured Clinical Interview (SCID-V), Revised Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Questionnaire by Foua et al. (2002) and the short form of Bernstein et al.'s (2003) Child Trauma Questionnaire. Data were analyzed by structural equation analysis in SPSS-21 and AMOS-24 software. The findings showed that the proposed model has a good fit with the data. In this model, the significant and direct effect of each of the variables of childhood trauma (0.405) and self-regulation (-0.163) on obsessive-compulsive disorder and also the indirect and significant effect of childhood trauma on obsessive-compulsive disorder (0.712) 0) was shown with the mentioned values (all P s <0.001).

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