Quality of life changes following inpatient and outpatient treatment in obsessive-compulsive disorder: a study with 12 months follow-up

Table 3 QoL and depressive symptoms at baseline and 1-year follow-up for n = 73 patients with OCD

	Norm	OCD pre	OCD f-up	Norm vs. pre		Norm vs. f-up		Baseline vs. f-up
	Norm	OCD pre	OCD f-up	z	p	z	p	d	p
Psych. QoL	74.0 ± 15.7	44.1 ± 19.1	59.1 ± 21.6	−1.9	<0.001	−0.94	<0.001	0.74	<0.001
Phys. QoL	76.9 ± 17.7	56.6 ± 16.5	70.9 ± 19.2	−1.15	<0.001	−0.34	0.010	0.80	<0.001
Soc. QoL	71.8 ± 18.5	54.1 ± 24.7	56.6 ± 22.7	−0.96	<0.001	−0.82	<0.001	0.11	0.316
Env. QoL	70.4 ± 14.2	68.5 ± 15.9	74.4 ± 14.6	−0.13	0.300	0.28	0.021	0.39	<0.001
Glob. QoL	67.6 ± 17.9	37.8 ± 21.5	59.2 ± 25.7	−1.66	<0.001	−0.47	0.007	0.90	<0.001
BDI		18.9 ± 10.1	10.3 ± 10.1					0.85	<0.001

QoL, quality of life; psych., psychological; phys., physical; soc., social; env., environmental; glob., global; BDI, Beck Depression Inventory; pre, baseline; f-up, 12-months-follow-up; norm, sample (n = 2,050) from the German general population. z scores were computed as follows: mean score for OCD subjects minus mean score of the norm population divided by the SD of the norm population (compare 21), p = level of significance (t test), d = effect sizes Cohen’s d. Significant results are given in bold.

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