A challenging task for assessment of checking behaviors in obsessive-compulsive disorder

• Published in: Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica Vol. 117; no. 6; pp. 465 - 473
• Main Authors: Rotge, J. Y., Clair, A. H., Jaafari, N., Hantouche, E. G., Pelissolo, A., Goillandeau, M., Pochon, J. B., Guehl, D., Bioulac, B., Burbaud, P., Tignol, J., Mallet, L., Aouizerate, B.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.06.2008; Blackwell
• Subjects: Adult; Adult and adolescent clinical studies; Aged; Anxiety disorders. Neuroses; Attention; Biological and medical sciences; checking behavior; Choice Behavior; delayed matching-to-sample task; Discrimination Learning; doubt; Female; Humans; Male; Measurement techniques; Medical sciences; Mental Recall; Middle Aged; Neuropsychological Tests - statistics & numerical data; Neuroses; obsessive-compulsive disorder; Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder - diagnosis; Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder - psychology; Obsessive-compulsive disorders; Pattern Recognition, Visual; Personality Assessment - statistics & numerical data; Psychiatry; Psychological tests; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychopathology. Psychiatry; Reaction Time; Stereotyped Behavior; Human; Evaluation; Obsessive compulsive disorder; obsessive-compulsive disorder; Anxiety disorder; doubt; Verification; Experimental study; Repetitive behavior; checking behavior; Symptomatology; Delayed response; delayed matching-to- sample task; Matching task; Quantitative analysis

Objective:  The present study concerns the objective and quantitative measurement of checking activity, which represents the most frequently observed compulsions in obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD). To address this issue, we developed an instrumental task producing repetitive checking in OCD subj...