The Relationship between Obsessions and Compulsions and Negative and Positive Symptoms in Schizophrenia

Objective: the aim of the present study is to investigate the relationshipbetween obsessive-compulsive symptoms (ocss) and negative andpositive symptoms in schizophrenia.methods: subjects of the study comprised of 31 schizophrenia withobsessive-compulsive symptoms (19 men and 12 women) selected byconvenience sampling method from iran psychiatric hospital. thediagnoses were established on the basis of dsm-iv-tr. the requireddata were obtained using positive and negative syndrome scale(panss) and yale-brown obsessive-compulsive scale (y-boc).results: the results of multiple regression analysis indicated thatobsessive symptoms inversely predict negative symptoms. in otherwords, as the obsessive symptoms increase, the negative symptoms ofschizophrenia decrease. nevertheless, no significant relationship wasfound between ocss and positive symptoms .conclusion: this study reveals that ocss exert a protective effect on schizophrenia and do not necessarily cause poorer prognosis.