A survey of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder prevalence among High school girl students in Sari

Background and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is a disease that appears to be under-diagnosed and under-treated despite the evidence for effective treatments. There are variable estimates of OCD prevalence (many studies reported that its prevalence is betwent 2% and 3% in general population). It is dependented to age, sex, marital status, socio-economic & educational state, in population. This method was a cross sectional descriptive study on high school girl students in Sari city. 3104 girls were selected and interviewed through randomized systematic & cluster sampling method from all high school girl students. The assessment was done by Muadsley obsession compulsive inventory & demographic inventory. After the data were analized by descriptive and qualitative methods. 108 students were excluded then 2996 girls were entered in this study, 31.2% (936 individuals) had OCD and mean of their age was 16.22 ± 3.4. 30.7% of girls was first child, 35.1% of mothers & 34.7% of fathers had low educational class and low socio economic state. Prevalence of OCD in high school girl students was significant in sari city, and it was related to number of birth, family size, and low socio-economic and educational level.