The purpose of this study is to estimate the cost of obsessive-compulsive disorder in China based on the prevalence rate from a social perspective.
Obsessive-compulsive disorder(OCD) is one of relatively common mental disorders with a prevalence of 1.63% in China. OCD usually begins in adolescence or young adulthood , it will become a chronic disabling disease, if it is not treated in timeand.OCD can be so severe that it can seriously impact on some or all areas of a person's life, bring huge economic burden. At present, there is only one article on the cost of OCD in the United States in the 1990s, and this part of the data in China is blank.A cross-sectional study recruited 600 patients with OCD from 13 hospitals in eastern, western, southern, and northern China. A structured questionnaire was used for face-to-face interviewing to collect costs related to OCD. The direct costs for each patient and indirect costs ffor each patient and their caregivers were calculated . The human capital method is used to calculate indirect costs. Through weighting, the cost of OCD in China is estimated from a social perspective using a bottom-up methodology.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
cross sectional study，no intervention
Shanghai Mental Health Center
Shanghai, Shanghai Municipality, China
obsessive-compulsive disorder related costs in China
Estimating the direct and indirect Costs of Chinese OCD based on prevalence from a social perspective
Time frame: 1 year
Direct costs and indirect costs of consumed resources
Direct costs include medical costs and transportation, food, accommodation, etc. corresponding related to clinics.Indirect costs include lost time for patients and family members due to OCD.
Time frame: 1 year
other costs directly associated with OCD
Other medical costs and economic loss of disruptive behaviors due to OCD
Time frame: 1 year
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