TY - JOUR TI - The effect of psycho-education about maternal attitudes on childhood obsessive compulsive disorder symptoms compulsive disorder symptoms AB - investigate relationship between maternal attitudes andsubclinical childhood Obsessive Compulsive Disorder(OCD) in Turkish sample. Study also investigates theeffectiveness of 8-sessions psycho-education programabout maternal attitudes. Method: Sample consisted of97 mother-child pairs and children's age ranged between8 to 10. Parental Attitudes Research Instrument (PARI),Leyton Obsessional Inventory Child Version (LOI-CV),State-Trait Anxiety Inventory for Children (STAI-CH) andChildren’s Depression Inventory (CDI) were used asassessment tools. After initial assessments, fifteen mothersrandomly assigned either to group psycho-educationcondition (n=8) or waiting-list control condition(n=7). Results: Marital conflict was positively correlatedwith total interference score in LOI-CV, total score in LOICVand A-Trait anxiety symptoms (r=.23, r=.24 and r=.24, respectively). Authoritarianism positively correlatedwith A-Trait anxiety symptoms (r=.25). Findings alsoindicated that there was a statistically significant differencein total scores of negative attitudes (Z=-2.201,p=.028), and posttest scores of these variables showedsignificant decrease after psycho-education program.There were statistically significant change in interfere(Z=-2.371, p=.018) and total (Z=-2.366, p=.018) scoreof OCD symptoms after psycho-education program.Discussion: Marital conflict has a significant relationshipwith subclinical OCD symptoms. Marital conflict andauthoritarian attitude also have significant relationshipwith trait anxiety symptoms in children. Furthermore,psycho-education program was effective in reducingnegative maternal attitudes and children’s subclinicalOCD symptoms AU - MORTAN SEVI, OYA AU - Akıncı, Ecem PY - 2020 JO - Klinik Psikiyatri Dergisi VL - 23 IS - 1 SN - 1302-0099 SP - 7 EP - 22 DB - TRDizin UR - http://search/yayin/detay/366811 ER -