Objectives : A great deal of attention has been paid to comorbid personality disorders in obsessive-compulsive disorder from the theoretical perspectives but also from the clinical aspects related to the prediction of the treatment repurpose yf the current study was to investigate the relations of the symptoms dimensions in OCD to the comorbid personality osder notPurpose o 0 response. The
Methods : One-hundred thirty subjects with OCD completed Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale (YB Pe rsonalit Disorder Questionnaire-4+categories YB (PDQ-4+). Factor scores of symptom dimensions yielded from a factor analysis nof13 OCS symptom checklist were inspected how to be related with the presence of an the PDQ scores for cluster A, B, and C Results : The p Personality pathology. any Personality disorder and DQ total score was significantly correlated with aggressive/sea.ual/religious obsessions, hoarding, mmetry/ordering dimensions. The hoarding and repeating/counting dimensions were correlated with cluter A pathology, dimension was with cluster B pathology, and sydisorders of all the clusters. while the obsessions dimension was globally related to personality´ the
Conclusion : These findings add the evidence of the heterogeneity of OCD. The presence of pure obsessions, hoarding, and symmetry/ordering dimensions may need a close screening for comorbid personality disorders and individualized the strategies. (J Korean Neuropsychiatr Assoc 2004;43 (1) :46-53)
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