the prevalence of misophonia and its relationship with obsessive-compulsive disorder, anxiety, and depression in undergraduate students of shiraz university of medical sciences: a cross-sectional study

Background: misophonia is a severe emotional response to repetitive sounds. this disorder may limit a person’s communication, reduce his/her ability, or disrupt his/her social and personal life. this study aimed to determine the prevalence of misophonia and its relationship with obsessive-compulsive disorder, anxiety, and depression in undergraduate students of shiraz university of medical sciences. methods: the present study is an analytical descriptive study conducted in october 2020. the study samples consisted of 390 undergraduate students of shiraz university of medical sciences. a relative and systematic sampling method was used. in this study, demographic questionnaire, misophonia questionnaire (a score of 7 or higher is considered as misophonia), beck anxiety questionnaire, beck depression questionnaire, and maudsley obsessive-compulsive inventory questionnaire were used, and the data were analyzed using spss 24 software. in this study, chi-square test was used to examine the relationship between the variables. due to the non-normality of the data, the spearman correlation coefficient was used for data analysis. the significance level was considered equal to and less than 0.05. results: of the 390 participants in the study, 93 (23.8%) had experienced misophonia. among these 93 students, 37 (39.8%) had obsessive-compulsive disorder, 8 (8.6%) suffered anxiety, and 9 (9.7%) were depressed. there was a significant and direct relationship between misophonia and obsessivecompulsive disorder,anxiety and depression respectively(p<0.001). conclusion: due to the prevalence of misophonia among students and its direct relationship with obsessive-compulsive disorder, anxiety and depression, we recommend that future studies should be conducted to find the ways to prevent and reduce the incidence of misophonia