Psychic euosmia among obsessive-compulsive personality disorder patients:A case control study

作     者：Annalisa Maraone Lorenzo Tarsitani Marianna Frascarelli Federica Petrini Valentina Roselli MassimilianoTinè Gabriele Cavaggioni Vlasios Brakoulias Massimo Biondi Massimo Pasquini 

作者机构：Department of Human NeurosciencesSapienza UniversityRome 00185Italy Department of Neurosciences and Mental HealthUmberto I PoliclinicRome 00185Italy School of MedicineWestern Sydney University and Western Sydney Local Health DistrictBlacktown 2145SNWAustralia Department of PsychiatryNepean HospitalSydney Medical SchoolThe University of SydneyPenrith 2751SNWAustralia 

出 版 物：《World Journal of Psychiatry》 (世界精神病学杂志)

年 卷 期：2021年第11卷第2期

页      面：50-57页

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学科分类：1002[医学-临床医学] 100205[医学-精神病与精神卫生学] 10[医学] 

主　　题：Psychic euosmia Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder Disgust Orderliness Olfactory Personality 

摘      要：BACKGROUND Psychic euosmia(PE)has been described as a supposed psychological predisposition for which pleasant smells elicit an immediate sense of pleasure,order and calmness in obsessive-compulsive personality disorder(OCPD).In this study we tried to verify the interpretation that PE is the counterpart of disgust that has been associated to contamination and moral *** and morality are significantly associated in people with obsessive-compulsive personality *** expected that OCPD patients would experience higher levels of *** To investigate the PE frequency in OCPD patients and healthy controls(HC)and to evaluate the relationship between PE and *** A single-center,case-control study was conducted in an outpatient service for obsessive-compulsive and related *** sample consisted of 129 subjects:45 OCPD patients and 84 *** both groups we submitted the Disgust Scale Revised(DS-R)and the self-report Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-5 Screening Personality Questionnaire to which we added an additional yes or no question to investigate the presence of *** order to verify differences between groups,t-test was employed for continuous variables and 2 test for categorical variable;odds ratio was employed to analyze group differences in the PE *** was explored with Pearson r *** No differences were observed between groups in gender composition or education.A slight significant difference was found in mean age(t=1.988;P=0.049).The present study revealed significantly higher proportions of PE among OCPD patients when compared to HC(OR:5.3,2.28-12.46).Patients with OCPD were more likely to report PE(n=36;80%)whereas a much lower proportion endorsed PE in the HC group(n=36;42.9%).Interestingly,no differences were observed between groups in mean score for the Disgust *** was also no difference between the two groups in any of the Disgust Scale Revised ***,no significant correla