Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is frequent and often disabling. Yet, correct diagnosis
and appropriate treatment implementation are usually delayed, with undesirable …

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is common, emerges early in life and tends to run a
chronic, impairing course. Despite the availability of effective treatments, the duration of …

Aim: Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) is a disabling condition, often associated with
early onset and chronic course. Early onset combined to the secretiveness that frequently …

Background: The duration of untreated illness (DUI) is a potentially modifiable parameter
associated with worst prognosis in several psychiatric disorders, but poorly investigated in …

Duration of untreated illness (DUI) is a predictor of outcome in psychotic and affective
disorders. The few available data on the effect of DUI in obsessive-compulsive disorder …

Background It remains unknown whether the duration of untreated illness (DUI) may play a
critical role in clinical improvement of patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) …

Recent changes to the diagnostic classification of obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD),
including its removal from the anxiety/neurotic, stress-related and somatoform disorders …

Although obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is associated with clinically significant
distress, many OCD patients do not seek treatment. Studies show that Black Americans with …

Introduction: Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a highly disabling condition, with
frequent early onset. Adult/adolescent OCD has been extensively investigated, but little is …

Background: Duration of untreated illness (DUI)—defined as the time period between the
onset of a mental disorder and its first adequate treatment—should influence patients' long …