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Exploratory analysis of obsessive compulsive symptom dimensions in children and adolescents: a prospective follow-up study.
BMC psychiatry - 5 Jan 2006
Delorme Richard, Bille Arnaud, Betancur Catalina, Mathieu Flavie, Chabane Nadia, Mouren-Simeoni Marie Christine, Leboyer Marion
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BACKGROUND: Recent statistical approaches based on factor analysis of obsessive compulsive (OC) symptoms in adult patients have identified dimensions that seem more effective in symptom-based taxonomies and appear to be more stable over time. Although a phenotypic continuum from childhood to adulthood has been hypothesized, no factor analytic studies have been performed in juvenile patients, and the stability of...
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