Compulsive sexual behavior disorder in obsessive-compulsive disorder: Prevalence and associated comorbidity.

Journal: Journal of behavioral addictions

Volume: 8

Issue: 2

Year of Publication: 2020

Affiliated Institutions:  Institute for Sex Research, Sexual Medicine and Forensic Psychiatry, Center of Psychosocial Medicine,University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg,Germany. MRC Unit on Risk and Resilience in Mental Disorders, Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health,University of Cape Town, Cape Town,South Africa.

Abstract summary 

Compulsive sexual behavior disorder (CSBD) will be included in ICD-11 as an impulse-control disorder. CSBD also shares clinical features with obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders (OCSDs) and behavioral addictions. There has been relatively little systematic investigation of CSBD in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), the paradigmatic compulsive disorder. We aimed to determine prevalence of CSBD in OCD, and its associated sociodemographic and clinical features, including associated comorbidity, to learn more about the nature of CSBD.Adult outpatients with current OCD ( = 539) participated in this study. The Structured Clinical Interview for OCSDs was used to diagnose OCSDs (Tourette's syndrome, compulsive shopping, pathological gambling, kleptomania, pyromania, intermittent explosive disorder, self-injurious behavior, and CSBD). Prevalence rates of OCSDs in male versus female patients as well as comorbid disorders in OCD patients with and without CSBD were compared.Lifetime prevalence of CSBD was 5.6% in patients with current OCD and significantly higher in men than women. OCD patients with and without CSBD were similar in terms of age, age of onset of OCD, present OCD illness severity, as well as educational background. Lifetime prevalence rates of several mood, obsessive-compulsive, and impulse-control disorders were considerably elevated in patients with lifetime CSBD.A substantive number of OCD patients suffered from CSBD. CSBD in OCD was more likely comorbid with other mood, obsessive-compulsive, and impulse-control disorders, but not with disorders due to substance use or addictive behaviors. This finding supports conceptualization of CSBD as a compulsive-impulsive disorder.

Authors & Co-authors:  Fuss Johannes J Briken Peer P Stein Dan J DJ Lochner Christine C

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Citations :  American Psychiatric Association [APA]. (2000). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (4th ed., text rev.). Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association.
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Identifiers
Doi : 10.1556/2006.8.2019.23
SSN : 2063-5303
Study Population
Men,Male,Female
Mesh Terms
Adolescent
Other Terms
behavioral addictions;compulsive sexual behavior disorder;compulsivity;hypersexual disorder;hypersexuality;impulsivity
Study Design
Cross Sectional Study
Study Approach
Systemic Review
Country of Study
Publication Country
Hungary