Because of COVID-19, we cann't carry out recruiting according to the original plan

The purpose of this study is to estimate the cost of obsessive-compulsive disorder in China based on the prevalence rate from a social perspective.

Obsessive-compulsive disorder(OCD) is one of relatively common mental disorders with a prevalence of 1.63% in China. OCD usually begins in adolescence or young adulthood , it will become a chronic disabling disease, if it is not treated in timeand.OCD can be so severe that it can seriously impact on some or all areas of a person's life, bring huge economic burden. At present, there is only one article on the cost of OCD in the United States in the 1990s, and this part of the data in China is blank.A cross-sectional study recruited 600 patients with OCD from 13 hospitals in eastern, western, southern, and northern China. A structured questionnaire was used for face-to-face interviewing to collect costs related to OCD. The direct costs for each patient and indirect costs ffor each patient and their caregivers were calculated . The human capital method is used to calculate indirect costs. Through weighting, the cost of OCD in China is estimated from a social perspective using a bottom-up methodology.

Inclusion Criteria:

• primarily diagnosed OCD meet DSM-5 critera
• 16-65 years old
• Get informed consent from patients

Exclusion Criteria:

• Concurrent neuropsychiatric diseases such as schizophrenia, which severely interfere with treatment costs
• Drug abuser
• Unable to understand the questionnaire

patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder are recruited from both outpatient clinics and inpatient departments