The difference in phenomena of paranormal belief between patients with moderate and severe obsessive: Compulsive symptoms

Pages: 1105-1107
Kshitij Modi, Nandha Kumara Pujam, and Rajendra Kumar Sharma (Department of Clinical Psychology, Amity University, Madhya Pradesh)

A Paranormal phenomenon refers to belief in clairvoyance, telepathy, witchcraft and precognition. In OCD, paranormal beliefs play an important role in the maintenance of the symptoms. The objective of the present study is to assess the phenomena of paranormal belief difference between patient with moderate and severe obsessive compulsive symptoms. This was a hospital based cross sectional study conducted at outpatient and inpatient department of Psychiatry in Gajraraja Medical College, Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh. The sample consists of 50 OCD patients diagnosed according to ICD-10 DCR. To measure the obsessive compulsive symptoms and paranormal belief, Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale and Revised Paranormal Belief scale were administered respectively. To compute the data (SPSS) version 16.0 was used. Independent sample “t” test was used to analyze the difference between the groups. The results showed that the present study observed that patients with Severe Obsessive Compulsive Symptoms showed higher spiritual belief than the patients with Moderate Obsessive Compulsive Symptoms. Similarly patients with Moderate Obsessive Compulsive Symptoms reported higher Precognition belief than the patients with severe Obsessive compulsive symptoms.