Clinical Profile and Comorbidity of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder among Children and Adolescents: A Cross-Sectional Observation in Bangladesh

Table 3

Characteristics feature of compulsion according to Children’s Yale-Brown Compulsive Scale.

Characteristics	Age in years				Total ()		p value
	<12 ()		≥12 ()
	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%
Time spent on compulsion
Mild	1	4.8	2	5.1	3	5.0
Moderate	9	42.9	16	41.0	25	41.7
Severe	11	52.4	13	33.3	24	40.0
Extreme	0	.0	8	20.5	8	13.3
Mean ± SD score							0.312
Compulsion-free interval
Long	1	4.8	2	5.1	3	5.0
Moderately long	15	71.4	21	53.8	36	60.0
Short	5	23.8	13	33.3	18	30.0
Extremely short	0	.0	3	7.7	3	5.0
Mean ± SD score							0.171
Interference from compulsions
Long	1	4.8	2	5.1	3	5.0
Moderately long	11	52.4	12	30.8	23	38.3
Short	9	42.9	19	48.7	28	46.7
Extremely short	0	.0	6	15.4	6	10.0
Mean ± SD score							0.069
Distress of compulsions
Long	1	4.8	2	5.1	3	5.0
Moderately long	5	23.8	6	15.4	11	18.3
Short	13	61.9	15	38.5	28	46.7
Extremely short	2	9.5	16	41.0	18	30.0
Mean ± SD score							0.082
Resistance
1	1	4.8	1	2.6	2	3.3
2	4	19.0	8	20.5	12	20.0
3	14	66.7	22	56.4	36	60.0
Completely yields	2	9.5	8	20.5	10	16.7
Mean ± SD score							0.471
Control over compulsion
Much control	1	4.8	1	2.6	2	3.3
Moderate control	5	23.8	8	20.5	13	21.7
Little control	13	61.9	20	51.3	33	55.0
No control	2	9.5	10	25.6	12	20.0
Mean ± SD score							0.240
Total obsession score							0.121

p value reached from unpaired Student’s t-test.