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Abstract
Background: Hoarding is poorly understood disorder that characterized by difficulty discarding and excessive acquiring a large amount of possessions resulting in clutter which interferes with the individual’s ability to use his/her home. Although hoarding is often considered a symptom of obsessive– compulsive disorder (OCD), and is included in most structured interviews and questionnaires of OCD symptoms, such as the Yale–Brown Obsessive– Compulsive Scale (Y-BOCS) and the Obsessive–Compulsive Inventory-Revised (OCI-R) it is not directly mentioned in DSM-IV-TR or in ICD-10 as a typical symptom of OCD.
Materials and Methods: 175 patients were included in this study age ranges from 18 to 50. We divided them into main 5 categories based on MINI to: MDD, GAD, OCD, Mood with psychotic features and psychotic disorders. The study took place in institute of psychiatry Ain shams Uiniversity Hopitals (El- Demerdash Hospital) from December 2016 till June 2017.
Results: The main findings in our study were that the prevalence of hoarding among our sample was (n=61; 34.9%) with the majority of them were males (53.7%) with statistical correlation (P=0.031) which was going in line with the study conducted in Singapore in 2016 on patients seeking psychiatric treatment in a psychiatric hospital in Singapore. Moreover we found that the majority of them had no store in their homes (68.9%) with statistical correlation (p=0.007) and hoarding was more in patients who were working a professional work (31.1%) with also a statistical correlation (p=0.023). As regards the correlation of hoarding and different psychiatric disorders, we found that it is high among patients who received the diagnosis of MDD with statistical correlation (p=0.012) which goes in line with study done in Singapore followed by GAD using SI-R total scores which also goes in line with another study done in 2011 by Tolin in Hartford hospital in patients seeking treatment of anxiety disorders.
Conclusion: Hoarding is considered now a separate entity in DSM-5 and distinct to OCD. Patients were seeking treatment for their psychiatric disorders other than hoarding, so all of them were insightless to this problem.