The Relationship between Parental Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and 11- to 15-Year-Old Adolescents with Skin Picking Disorder (Dermatillomania) and Normal Adolescents

The present study compares the obsessive-compulsive disorder of parents of adolescents aged 11 to 15 with skin-picking disorder and normal adolescents in Yazd. This applied research is a part of causal-comparative descriptive research in terms of nature. This study’s statistical population includes all the parents of eleven-to-fifteen-year-old adolescents with skin picking disorder and normal adolescents in Yazd. The sampling method was accessible for mothers of adolescents with skin peeling disorder and random for normal adolescents. In this way, the mothers of adolescents with skin picking disorder were contacted by visiting counseling centers. In the case of consent, 30 people were selected and completed the questionnaire in the research. In addition, 30 people were randomly selected from normal teenagers. They completed the Maudsley (1977). Obsessive-Compulsive Scale questionnaires. The data were analyzed using statistical methods of analysis of variance. The findings show a significant difference in parental obsessive-compulsive disorder between two groups of adolescents with picking disorder and normal adolescents. The results of the independent t-test to compare the mean scores show that the parents of teenagers with skin-picking disorder have a higher obsessive-compulsive disorder than normal ones.