SynthesisCurrent psychiatry reports2021
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder During the COVID-19 Pandemic: a Systematic Review.
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- Stressful life events as precipitants of obsessive-compulsive disorder: a systematic review and meta-analysis.CNS spectrums · 2025Pooled it
- A narrative systematic review of changes in mental health symptoms from before to during the COVID-19 pandemic.Psychological medicine · 2024Pooled it
- Prevalence of obsessive-compulsive disorders (OCD) symptoms among health care workers in COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC psychiatry · 2023Pooled it
- Association between the COVID-19 pandemic and psychiatric symptoms in people with preexisting obsessive-compulsive, eating, anxiety, and mood disorders: a systematic review and meta-analysis of before-after studies.Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences · 2023Pooled it
- Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder During the COVID-19 Pandemic-A Systematic Review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Pooled it
- Cognitive Training via a Mobile Application to Reduce Obsessive-Compulsive-Related Distress and Cognitions During the COVID-19 Outbreaks: A Randomized Controlled Trial Using a Subclinical Cohort.Behavior therapy · 2022Trial
- Virtual Reality-Delivered Exposure for Contamination Concerns in Adults With Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms: Single-Arm Pilot Study.JMIR serious games · 2026Article
- Effects of Exposure to Non-Immersive Virtual Reality on Disgust and Anxiety: A Study on Non-Clinical Samples.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Echoes of ease: Tracing the course of obsessive-compulsive symptoms in the aftermath of a pandemic-Insights from a four-year panel study.The British journal of clinical psychology · 2026Article
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- Excessive Switching in OCD and Paranoia Arises From Different Deficits in Belief-Updating.Computational psychiatry (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2026Article
- OCD Compulsions as Aberrant Integration of Uncertainty from Local Goals to Global Goals.Computational psychiatry (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2026Article
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder during the COVID-19 pandemic: unveiling the traits that hold the key-a cross-sectional study.European journal of medical research · 2025Article
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- Psychometric Properties of the Bangla Version of the Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II) With University Students in Bangladesh: A Cross-Sectional Study.Health science reports · 2025Article
- Washing obsessive-compulsive symptoms as adaptation-insights from a 3-year longitudinal cohort during the COVID-19 pandemic.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms in the General Population Under Stressful Conditions: Lessons Learned from the COVID-19 Pandemic.Brain sciences · 2024Article
- The Impact of COVID-19 on Patients With Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder in Gulf Countries: A Narrative Review.Cureus · 2024Review
- Everyday Discrimination and Trajectories of Transdiagnostic Symptoms of Depression and Anxiety among Young Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic.Stigma and health · 2024Article
- Impact of Benzodiazepines and Illness Duration on Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder during COVID-19 in Italy: Exploring Symptoms' Evolutionary Benefits.Brain sciences · 2024Article
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Abstract
purpose of reviewThis systematic review evaluated the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on obsessive-compulsive symptoms. RECENT
findingsMost studies showed that obsessive-compulsive symptoms worsened during the early stages of the pandemic, particularly for individuals with contamination-related obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), though other symptoms dimensions were found to worsen as well. Many patients and individuals in the general population experienced new obsessive-compulsive-like symptoms centered on COVID-19. Self-reported rates of symptom exacerbation and COVID-19-focused symptoms were consistently lower in studies that recruited patients from specialty clinics (compared to online samples). Most studies were conducted in Spring/Summer, 2020. The COVID-19 pandemic has been an enormous stressor for individuals with OCD, especially for those with contamination symptoms. Regardless, there is strong reason to believe gold standard treatment approaches for OCD have maintained strong efficacy. Disseminating and effectively delivering evidence-based treatments for OCD is an urgent public health priority.
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