TY  - JOUR
TI  - Comparison of Early Maladaptive Schemas  in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Patients,  Their Siblings, and Controls
AB  - Objective: The aim of this study was to determine the levels of early maladaptive schemas  in obsessive-compulsive disorder patients, their siblings, and healthy controls to evalu ate the association between genetic and environmental factors and early maladaptive  schemas. Methods: The study group included 42 obsessive-compulsive disorder patients who were  admitted to and diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder at the outpatient psychi atry clinic of Karadeniz Technical University Medical School between December 2017 and  November 2018 and their 24 siblings who were born to and raised by the same parents  and 42 volunteers. Diagnoses were based on the American Psychiatric Association’s  Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) criteria. The patients  filled out the Young Schema Questionnaire Short Form-3 and the Yale-Brown Obsession Compulsion Scale. Results: The groups were similar in terms of age, sex, marital status, occupation, pres ence of comorbidity, and income level. The comparison of the scores of Young Schema  Questionnaire Short Form-3 subscales revealed significant differences among the groups  in failure, pessimism, social isolation/alienation, approval-seeking, enmeshment, aban donment, punishment, and defectiveness schemas. The post hoc analysis revealed that  pessimism and defectiveness were significantly different between the patient and sib ling groups, and approval-seeking, enmeshment, and abandonment were significantly  different between the control and the sibling groups. The comparison of the Yale-Brown  Obsession-Compulsion Scale and the Young Schema Questionnaire Short Form-3 results  revealed that the subscales of enmeshment, failure, approval-seeking, and unrelenting  standards were significantly correlated with the obsession and compulsion subscales and  the total score in the Yale-Brown Obsession-Compulsion Scale. Conclusion: We found similarities between early maladaptive schemas in the obsessive compulsive disorder patients and their healthy siblings. We also found differences between  the siblings and the healthy controls. These findings suggest a familial and genetic basis  for the early maladaptive schemas in obsessive-compulsive disorder patients, which  should be further evaluated in future studies with larger samples.
AU  - Baz, Ali
AU  - özkorumak, evrim
DO  - 10.5152/alphapsychiatry.2022.21565
PY  - 2022
JO  - Alpha psychiatry (Online)
VL  - 23
IS  - 4
SN  - 2757-8038
SP  - 157
EP  - 163
DB  - TRDizin
UR  - http://search/yayin/detay/1112489
ER  -