Effects of Escitalopram in treatment of patients with obsessio
Phase 2
- Conditions
- obsessive compulsive disorder.The essential feature is recurrent obsessional thoughts or compulsive acts. Obsessional thoughts are ideas, images, or impulses that enter the patient's mind again and again in a stereotyped form. They are almost invariably distressing and the patient oft
- Registration Number
- IRCT2016020421745N4
- Lead Sponsor
- Vice chancellor of research Shiraz University of Medical Sciences
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Complete
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 70
Inclusion Criteria
Patients with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) that diagnosed with interview by psychiatrist according to DSM-IV TR; Yale-Brown-obsessive-compulsive scale equal or more than 18; Informed consent of patients.
Exclusion criteria: Other psychiatric disorder diagnosis according to axis I and II; Major medical illness like hypertension, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, renal disease and gastrointestinal disease; Pregnancy and lactation; Substance or alcohol abuse; Any intolerable adverse side effects of treatment; Any SSRI usage in past 5 weeks; Patients younger than 18 years and older than 65 years old.
Exclusion Criteria
Not provided
Study & Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Severity of signs and symptoms of the patients with obcessive compulsive disorder. Timepoint: At the beginning of study and at the sixth week of study. Method of measurement: Y-BOCS At the beginning of study and at the sixth week of study and CGI-Improvement test at sixth week of study.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method