Abstract
The present study is aimed at identifying the most prominent determinants of OCD along with their strength to classify the OCD patients from healthy controls. The data for this cross-sectional study were collected from 200 diagnosed OCD patients and 400 healthy controls. The respondents were selected through purposive sampling and interviewed by using the Y-BOCS scale with the addition of a factor, worth of an individual in his family. The validity and reliability of data were assessed through Cronbach's alpha and confirmatory factor analysis. Artificial Neural Network (ANN) modeling was adopted to determine threatening determinants along with their strength to predict OCD in an individual. The results of ANN modeling depicted 98% accurate classification of OCD patients from healthy controls. The most contributing factors in determining the OCD patients according to normalized importance were the contamination and cleaning (100%); symmetric and perfection (72.5%); worth of an individual in the family (71.1%); aggressive, religious, and sexual obsession (50.5%); high-risk assessment (46.0%); and somatic obsessions and checking (24.0%).
Highlights
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a common mental and behavioral disorder recognized by the presence of obsessions and compulsions in the patients [1]
The aim of this study was, to diagnose the potential determinants of OCD with their strength of importance by employing Artificial Neural Network (ANN) in case-control study samples to distinguish between OCD patients and healthy controls
This study examined five popular symptom factors of OCD considered in Y-BOCS with the addition of the factor “worth in family.”
Summary
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a common mental and behavioral disorder recognized by the presence of obsessions (frequent unwanted sensations) and compulsions (recurring behaviors considered compulsive to perform) in the patients [1]. The common known compulsions are the excessive checking, cleaning, washing, arrangement, and order and other related activities patients feel the urge to perform to avoid obsessions. People suffering from OCD spend much time performing undesired and uncontrolled behaviors to deal with their obsessions These repeated behaviors affect the daily routines by consuming a considerable amount of patient’s time. The World Health Organization (WHO) has marked such mental diseases among the top ten leading causes of death worldwide [4]. It is known as a serious cause of increasing suicidal attempt rate [5] and disability of work.
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