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A Follow-Up of Adolescents with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

M. Allsopp  and
C. Verduyn
M. Allsopp
Affiliation:
Oxford Rotational Training Scheme, The Park Hospital for Children, Old Road, Headington, Oxford
C. Verduyn
Affiliation:
Bolton General Hospital, Farnworth, Bolton BL4 0JR
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Abstract

Twenty-six patients seen at a regional adolescent psychiatry unit between 1974 and 1979 with a discharge diagnosis of obsessive-compulsive disorder were followed up after an average of ten years. Of 24 subjects traced, outcome information was obtained from 20. At the point of follow-up, ten patients remained psychiatrically ill, six having persisting obsessive–compulsive symptoms. Poor outcome was associated with a family history of psychiatric illness and lack of response to therapy at initial contact. All patients who were asymptomatic at discharge had remained well.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 154 , Issue 6 , June 1989 , pp. 829 - 834
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1989 

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