AU - Hemmati, Sahel AU - Amiri, Nasrin AU - Teymouri, Robab AU - Shirinbayan, Peymaneh AU - Pourmohamadreza-Tajrishi, Masoume AU - Garib, Masoud TI - Co-Morbidity of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and Tourette Syndrome PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE TA - Iranian-Rehabilitation-Journal JN - Iranian-Rehabilitation-Journal VO - 11 VI - 3 IP - 3 4099 - http://irj.uswr.ac.ir/article-1-281-en.html 4100 - http://irj.uswr.ac.ir/article-1-281-en.pdf SO - Iranian-Rehabilitation-Journal 3 ABĀ  - Objectives: Tourette syndrome is a disease with vocal and motor tics. This disorder is co-morbid with many psychiatric disorders, among which obsessive-compulsive disorder is the most common. Methods: During a one-year period, 30 patients with Tourette disorder were studied at an adolescent psychiatry referral clinic. It was an analytical-descriptive study. Subjects were selected by convenience sampling. The control group was selected from students in Tehran schools similar to the first group in terms of age and gender. K-SADS questionnaire was used to examine the existence of obsessive-compulsive disorder in both groups. The results were analyzed with SPSS software. Results: The apparent co-morbidity of obsessive-compulsive disorder and Tourette syndrome was seen in this study, such that 53% of patients affected with it had obsessive-compulsive disorder. Statistics obtained was higher compared to earlier data. Although this co-morbidity was somewhat different in the two genders, it was not considered statistically significant (80% girls and 48% boys). Discussion: More focus should be laid upon the co-morbidity between Tourette and OCD. It is recommended to study patients with Tourette syndromemore extensively in terms of co-morbidity with other psychiatric disorders, especially the obsessive-compulsive disorder. CP - IRAN IN - Pediatric Neurorehabilitation Research Center, Psychiatry Department, University of Social Welfare & Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran. LG - eng PB - Iranian-Rehabilitation-Journal PG - 12 PT - Original Research Articles YR - 2013