The Influence of Obsessive Compulsive Symptoms on Quality of Life among the Female Nursing Staffs

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  • Harada Takashi
    Kagawa Prefectural Marugame Hospital
  • Nakamura Akemi
    Department of Nursing, Taijukai-Kaisei General Hospital
  • Tomotake Masahito
    Department of Psychiatry, Institute of Health Biosciences, the University of Tokushima Graduate School
  • Ohmori Tetsuro
    Department of Psychiatry, Institute of Health Biosciences, the University of Tokushima Graduate School

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  • 女性看護職の強迫傾向が主観的QOLに及ぼす影響
  • ジョセイ カンゴショク ノ キョウハク ケイコウ ガ シュカンテキ QOL ニ オヨボス エイキョウ

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Background: The influence of obsessive compulsive symptoms on subjective Quality of Life (QOL) among the woman nursing staff has been scarcely studied. Subject and methods: We examined the correlations of the scores on the Toronto Alexithiymia Scale (TAS-20) with the scores on the Maudsley Obsessive Compulsive Inventory (MOCI). We also assessed the influence of obsessive compulsive symptoms measured by the MOCI or depressive symptoms by the Zung Self-rating Depression Scale (SDS) on subjective QOL by the Brief Version of World Health Organization Quality of Life Assessment (WHO-QOL26) in the staff of 221 female nursing at a general hospital. The correlations of the MOCI or the SDS scores with the WHO-QOL26 total (t-QOL) and the domain scores ("physical", "psychological", "social", and "environmental" domains) were assessed by Spearman rank-correlations. Results: The TAS-20 total scores and the subfactor scores of "Difficulty identifying feelings", and "Difficulty describing feelings" positively correlated with the MOCI scores. Spearman rank-correlations showed negative correlations of the t-QOL with the MOCI and the SDS scores. The MOCI scores revealed significant negative correlations with "physical" and "psychological" but no correlation with "social" and "environmental", though the SDS scores showed significant negative correlations with each domain. The MOCI scores revealed significant negativecorrelations with the t-QOL only in the group in their twenties but the SDS scores showed significant negative correlations with the t-QOL in the group ranging from twenties to fifties. Only in over-fifties-group the MOCI scores revealed positive correlations with "social" domain. Conclusions: Among Japanese female nursing staff in the present study, alexithiymia by the TAS-20 affects on obsessive compulsive symptoms by the MOCI. Both obsessive compulsive symptoms and depressive symptoms had negative effects on their subjective QOL. While depressive symptoms showed negative correlations withsubjective QOL in each age bracket and on each domain, obsessive compulsive symptoms had negative correlations on the subjective QOL only in the younger age group and just on subjective "physical" and "psychological" well-beings. Obsessive compulsive symptoms would improve subjective "social" functioning in the mature age group.

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