Comparison of family functioning and social support between families with a member who has obsessive-compulsive disorder and control families in Shanghai.

Family functioning plays an important role in the etiology and course of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) so understanding the types of problems families with OCD patients have will help in the creation of OCD-specific family interventions.Compare family functioning and social support of OCD patients and their co-resident parents to that of community controls and their co-resident parents.Thirty-two psychiatric outpatients at the Affiliated...