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Title: | Memory function in patients with obsessive compulsive disorder and the problem of confidence in their memories: A clinical study | Authors: | Karadağ, Filiz Oğuzhanoğlu, Nalan Kalkan Özdel, Osman Ateşçi, Figen Çulha Amuk, Tarkan |
Keywords: | accuracy adult anxiety article attitude clinical article correlation analysis female Hamilton scale human male maudsley obsessive compulsive questionnaire memory obsessive compulsive disorder questionnaire rating scale recognition state trait anxiety inventory task performance Yale Brown Obsessive Compulsive scale Adult Anxiety Case-Control Studies Female Humans Male Memory Disorders Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Psychological Theory Questionnaires Recognition (Psychology) Self Assessment (Psychology) |
Abstract: | Aim: To examine obsessive-compulsive patients for memory of obsessive-compulsive relevant material and confidence in their memory. Methods: Memory function was examined by a recognition task using neutral and obsessive-compulsive relevant sentences in 32 patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder and 31 control subjects. We also investigated the participants' confidence in the accuracy of their recognition. The severity of obsessive-compulsive disorder was evaluated by using the Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale. The Maudsley Obsessive Compulsive Questionnaire, the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale, and the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory were also administered to the two groups. Results: Whereas obsessive-compulsive disorder patients were not significantly different from control subjects on measures of recognition memory for both obsessive-compulsive relevant and neutral material, they were significantly less confident in the memory for obsessive-compulsive relevant and neutral sentences. Also, the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) scores were negatively correlated with the recognition performance of obsessive-compulsive disorder relevant sentences and the levels of confidence in memory in the obsessive-compulsive disorder group. The obsessive-compulsive patients with checking compulsions were not different from non-checking obsessive-compulsive patients. Conclusion: Our results suggest that obsessive-compulsive patients experience difficulties in confidence in their memory, possibly related to anxiety rather than primary memory deficits. | URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/11499/4898 | ISSN: | 0353-9504 |
Appears in Collections: | PubMed İndeksli Yayınlar Koleksiyonu / PubMed Indexed Publications Collection Scopus İndeksli Yayınlar Koleksiyonu / Scopus Indexed Publications Collection Tıp Fakültesi Koleksiyonu WoS İndeksli Yayınlar Koleksiyonu / WoS Indexed Publications Collection |
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