Quality of Life in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Impact of the Disorder and of Treatment

Abstract

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), OCD is the sixth leading psychiatric disorder in terms of the total number of years lived with disability [6] and accounts for 2.5 % of global years lost because of disability [7]. [...]QoL is an important component that measures the impact of OCD on an indi- vidual with a holistic view encompassing a patient's opinion of the impact of illness and QoL goals must be incorporated as an outcome measure of therapeutic inter- ventions to ensure recovery from illness across all domains.