Artigo
Hoarding pet animals in obsessive-compulsive disorder
Registro 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
Campos-Lima, Andre Luis
Torres, Albina Rodrigues [UNESP]
Yuecel, Murat
Harrison, Ben J.
Moll, Jorge
Ferreira, Gabriela M.
Fontenelle, Leonardo Franklin
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. Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ) National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia (NHMRC) Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Programa de Transtornos Obsessivo-Compulsivos e de Ansiedade, Instituto de Psiquiatria Monash University, Monash Clinical and Imaging Neuroscience Laboratory, School of Psychological Sciences & Monash Biomedical Imaging Univ Melbourne, Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre Universidade Estadual Paulista, Departmento de Neurologia, Psicologia e Psiquiatria, Faculdade de Medicina de Botucatu CNPq: 303846/2008-9 FAPERJ: E-26/103.252/2011 NHMRC: 1021973 NHMRC: 628509