Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/11499/4898
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
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