The Obsessive Beliefs Questionnaire-44 (OBQ-44), a self-report measure, was developed by the Obsessive Compulsive Cognitions Working Group (OCCWG) to assess beliefs considered relevant in the etiology and maintenance of obsessions and compulsions. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the psychometric properties of the Persian language version of the Obsessive Beliefs Questionnaire (POBQ-44). A sample of 222 medical students from an Iranian university was used to assess the reliability and validity of the POBQ-44. The results indicated five factors: 1) general, 2) perfectionism, certainty, 3) responsibility and threat estimation, 4) importance and control of thoughts, 5) complete performance. Each of these factors was found to have adequate test-retest and internal consistency reliability. Each of the factors was associated with O-C symptoms. In addition, adequate convergent validity was found with a measure of obsessive compulsive symptoms, and discriminate validity was found w...

The Obsessive Beliefs Questionnaire-44 (OBQ-44), a self-report measure, was developed by the Obsessive Compulsive Cognitions Working Group (OCCWG) to assess beliefs considered relevant in the etiology and maintenance of obsessions and compulsions. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the psychometric properties of the Persian language version of the Obsessive Beliefs Questionnaire (POBQ-44). A sample of 222 medical students from an Iranian university was used to assess the reliability and validity of the POBQ-44. The results indicated five factors: 1) general, 2) perfectionism, certainty, 3) responsibility and threat estimation, 4) importance and control of thoughts, 5) complete performance. Each of these factors was found to have adequate test-retest and internal consistency reliability. Each of the factors was associated with O-C symptoms. In addition, adequate convergent validity was found with a measure of obsessive compulsive symptoms, and discriminate validity was found w...

The study aimed to translate and to explore psychometric properties of Obsessive-Belief Questionnaire-44 (OBQ-44) in Urdu language to make it available for mental health professionals of Pakistan in their practice of Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT). Employing the standard procedures of translation, this study has finalized Urdu version of OBQ-44 (i.e.OBQ-Urdu-44) which has satisfactory cross language validity (r= .87) and internal consistency (α=.87). The scale was reduced to 40 items through Exploratory Factor Analysis with Varimax rotation (EFA), conducted on a sample of 170 college students selected through Convenience sampling, resulted in a three factor structure of the tool which was different from original factor structure of OBQ-44. The factors of OBQ-Urdu-40 were labeled as Obsessive Belief-General (OB-G), Cautious/Vigilant (CV), and Perfectionism (PC) which depicted the 42% of total variance. The OBQ-Urdu-40 have shown satisfactory psychometric properties in terms of reli...

We examined the psychometric properties of the Arabic version of the Obsessive Compulsive Beliefs Questionnaire-44 (OBQ-44) in a sample of Kuwait University students. This questionnaire was developed by the Obsessive Compulsive Cognitions Working Group in order to assess belief domains believed to be crucial in the development of obsessive compulsive symptoms. The Arabic version of the OBQ-44 was developed according to the standard translation and back-translation methods. The Arabic versions of the OBQ-44, the Maudsley Obsessive - Compulsive Inventory (MOCI), and Beck Depression Inventory-Revised (BDI-II) were then administered on a sample of 200 Kuwait University students from the faculty of humanities chosen through random cluster sampling. Retest was administered within a 4 week time period. The results of principle component factor analysis with varimax rotation indicated 6 factors which overlapped to a high degree. A 3 factor solution was chosen based on the scree plot and fac...

Objective: The obsessive-compulsive disorder is considered as a type of anxiety disorder, yet a heterogeneous and incongruous disorder with different subsets and a great worldwide mental health problem. The disorder has been associated to various etiology factors and early diagnosis and treatment is of great importance. This study was conducted to determine the prevalence of obsessive-compulsive disorder symptoms in the population of 18-66-year-old county of Gonabad in 2016. Design: In this descriptive and analytic study, a sample of 900 hundred individuals (436 males, 464 females) from the general population of 18-66-year-old in Gonabad county were investigated through demography questionnaire, obsessive-compulsive inventory-revised scale, and Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV. After gathering the information, the data were analyzed through SPSS16 software and Chi Square Test. Results: In the current study the prevalence of obsessive-compulsive disorder stated to be 2.3%. The prevalence of the disorder was more among female than males and the most and the least rate of disorder prevalence was among the age range of 18-24 and 46-52, respectively. The results of chi square test indicated that age and gender had significant relationship with obsessive-compulsive disorder (P<0.05). However, in the current study, marital status and subjects' educational degrees had no significant relationship with obsessive-compulsive disorder (p>0.05). Conclusions: A relatively high prevalence of obsessive-compulsive disorder in the general population of Gonabad County emphasizes the necessity of fruitful therapeutic interventions in reducing the patients' problems and prevention programs by psychology and psychiatry experts.

Introduction: The present research aimed at studying the relationship between obsessive symptoms and obsessive beliefs with mindfulness, regarding the students at state and non-state universities of Rasht city. Methods: The design of the study was correlational descriptive. Statistical population in this study included male and female university students during the 2015-2016 academic year of different grades, and the samples in pilot study included 380 whom were selected based on the Morgan Table and multi-step cluster sampling methods. The revised OCI-R for OCD questionnaire as well as OBQ44 obsessive beliefs questionnaire, FFMQ five factor mindfulness questionnaire were used. Also, to analyze the data, multi--variant regression test and Pearson correlation coefficient using SPSS (version 20) were used. Results: Findings showed that correlated values between obsessive symptoms and obsessive beliefs with students’ mindfulness, were statistically meaningful (p&lt;0/01). There was a n...