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Hoarding pet animals in obsessive-compulsive disorder
Fecha
2015-02-01Registro en:
Acta Neuropsychiatrica. New York: Cambridge Univ Press, v. 27, n. 1, p. 8-13, 2015.
1601-5215
10.1017/neu.2014.29
WOS:000349531800002
3837157956819433
Autor
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)
Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
Monash University
University of Melbourne
Instituto D’Or de Pesquisa e Ensino (IDOR)
Institución
Resumen
Background Although severe hoarding symptoms have been considered rare among obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) samples, the prevalence of animal hoarding in OCD is unknown. To help clarifying this issue, we searched for cases of animal hoarding among patients attending a university OCD clinic (n=420).Methods Chart review.Results Only two patients from our sample exhibited animal hoarding (<0.5%) and only one of them presented additional obsessive-compulsive symptoms. Both cases also collected inanimate objects, presented low insight, exhibited poor response to serotonin reuptake inhibitors and did not adhere to therapy.Conclusions There seems to be a lack of relationship between animal hoarding and OCD. However, further studies with larger numbers of patients are needed to better define their psychopathological profile and more appropriate nosological insertion.