Vlasios Brakoulias, Vladan Starcevic, Umberto Albert, Shyam Sundar Arumugham, Brenda E Bailey, Amparo Belloch, Tania Borda, Liliana Dell'Osso, Jason A Elias, Martha J Falkenstein, Ygor A Ferrao, Leonardo F Fontenelle, Lena Jelinek, Leto Kalogeraki, Brian Kay, Luana D Laurito, Christine Lochner, Giuseppe Maina, Donatella Marazziti, Andrew Martin, Hisato Matsunaga, Euripedes C Miguel, Pedro Morgado, Irakis Mourikis, Massimo Pasquini, Rodrigo Perez Rivera, Sriramya Potluri, Janardhan Y C Reddy, Brian C Riemann, Maria Conceição do Rosario, Roseli G Shavitt, Dan J Stein, Kirupumani Viswasam, Zhen Wang, Naomi A Fineberg
OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to characterise international trends in the use of psychotropic medication, psychological therapies, and novel therapies used to treat obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). METHODS: Researchers in the field of OCD were invited to contribute summary statistics on the characteristics of their samples. Consistency of summary statistics across countries was evaluated. RESULTS: The study surveyed 19 expert centres from 15 countries (Argentina, Australia, Brazil, China, Germany, Greece, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States) providing a total sample of 7,340 participants...
January 2019: Human Psychopharmacology