The Cost of Obsessive-compulsive Disorder (OCD) in China

Shanghai Mental Health Center

Status: Withdrawn

Conditions: Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Treatments: Other: No intervention

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04215549

SMHC-OCD-5

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to estimate the cost of obsessive-compulsive disorder in China based on the prevalence rate from a social perspective.

Full description

Obsessive-compulsive disorder(OCD) is one of relatively common mental disorders with a prevalence of 1.63% in China. OCD usually begins in adolescence or young adulthood , it will become a chronic disabling disease, if it is not treated in timeand.OCD can be so severe that it can seriously impact on some or all areas of a person's life, bring huge economic burden. At present, there is only one article on the cost of OCD in the United States in the 1990s, and this part of the data in China is blank.A cross-sectional study recruited 600 patients with OCD from 13 hospitals in eastern, western, southern, and northern China. A structured questionnaire was used for face-to-face interviewing to collect costs related to OCD. The direct costs for each patient and indirect costs ffor each patient and their caregivers were calculated . The human capital method is used to calculate indirect costs. Through weighting, the cost of OCD in China is estimated from a social perspective using a bottom-up methodology.

Sex: All

Ages: 16 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• primarily diagnosed OCD meet DSM-5 critera
• 16-65 years old
• Get informed consent from patients

Exclusion criteria

• Concurrent neuropsychiatric diseases such as schizophrenia, which severely interfere with treatment costs
• Drug abuser
• Unable to understand the questionnaire

Trial design

0 participants in 1 patient group

Participants

Description:

OCD patients come from 13 hospitals located in the north, south, east and west of China

Treatment:

Other: No intervention