The study on differences between gender based of obsessive compulsive disorder of school aged children

The aim of that study is; researching the primary school aged children by the view of the differences among gender based symptoms of obsessive compulsive disorder and the relation between symptoms of obsessive compulsive disorder and behavioral problems. The sample of this research includes 98 girls and 72 boys, total of 170 children, attending to a primary school and their parent. Obsesion and compulsion on children are evaluated according to The Dimensional Yale Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale (DY-BOCS) with behavioral problems and Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL/4-18). Contamination worries and cleaning compulsions, miscellaneous (superstitions, lucky-unlucky numbers and etc), and total OCD symptom severity are significantly higher in girls than boys based on statistics. The study does not find out any difference between two groups interms of sexual and religious, harm, symmetry/ordering/re-doing, and hoarding symptoms. The study showed a positive connection between total OCD symptom and internalizing and externalizing and total behavior problem score. The result of our study is presenting that there are some differences among school aged children's OCD symptoms according to genders and there is a connection between OCD symptoms and problem behaviors. The results of our study is drawing attention to the importance of caring the symptoms of OCD and evaluating with behavioral problems.