OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE SYMPTOMS IN PATIENTS WITH EPILEPSY

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%.