May 5, 2025 · Similarly, in the classroom, a student’s OCD symptoms may manifest as an inability to focus on lessons due to intrusive thoughts or compulsions to perform specific rituals, …

Dec 16, 2024 · Kids with OCD are plagued by unwanted thoughts, images or impulses they can't control. Learn ways to help when signs of OCD present in the classroom.

In this IOCDF-funded study, recently published in JAMA Psychiatry, we set out to investigate the impact of OCD on educational performance at the population level.

Depending on the severity of the symptoms, some students find it difficult to learn and, for some, it’s almost impossible to concentrate on and complete schoolwork.

May 9, 2025 · The aims of this study were three-fold. First, we aimed to describe the school attendance and school impairment of a sample of 385 treatment-seeking children and …

Dec 15, 2024 · The Children's Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale (CY-BOCS; Scahill et al., 1997) was used to assess severity of obsessive-compulsive symptoms, and was administered …

ren have co-morbid OCD and depression (Bolhuis et al., 2013). Individuals with OCD and co-morbid depression have obsessions and compulsions that are more severe in intensity and more

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) can be found in about 4% of the general population and is characterized by various compulsions and obsessions that interfere with the person’s quality of …

A negative classroom environment (such as one in which a student does not feel safe in making mistakes) significantly affects the behavior of a student with OCD by increasing anxiety, …

OCD.2 OCD poses a particular threat to the scholastic functioning of students, due to its time-consuming and distracting symptoms, such as lengthy rituals or intrusive violent thoughts.1 …