Abstract :
Obsessive Compulsive Symptoms in Patients with Epilepsy. To find out the
prevalence of obsessive compulsive symptoms / disorder among patients of
epilepsy. Patients with epilepsy diagnosed clinically at psychiatric out
patients department were selected for the study. Yale-Brown Obsessive
Compulsive Scale was applied to find out the prevalence and nature of
obsessive compulsive symptoms. A total of 93 patients were participated and
it was found that 20.4 % of epilepsy patients had obsessive compulsive
symptoms. The prevalence of obsessive compulsive symptoms among the
patients of epilepsy was found to be 20.4%.
Keyword :
Compulsion, Obsession, Prevalence, epilepsy.