Otro
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
WOS:000349531800002
Autor
Campos-Lima, Andre Luis
Torres, Albina Rodrigues
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)