Objective: To assess significant contribution of demographic correlates in predicting obsessive compulsive symptoms in pregnant women during prenatal period visiting various hospitals in District Gujrat.
Methodology: This cross-sectional study was conducted at Department of Psychology from October, 2018 to July, 2019. Prenatal Obsession Compulsion Scale (POCS), 40-items were administered on 352 purposively selected pregnant women. Out of these, 203 women prone to prenatal obsessive-compulsive symptoms were screened out for further analysis. The salient demographic characteristics included: 36.9% were graduates, 66% were house wives with 97.5% having husbands alive. 30% had monthly income ranging from 61,000 to 85,000 PKR, 70% had unplanned pregnancy and 45.3% expected first time. 30% had miscarriage history, 24.6% lost fetus only one time and 12.3% gave birth to dead child in prior pregnancy.
Results: Certain psycho-social-demographics (R²= .69, F (7, 195) = 61.99, p
Key words: Obsessive-compulsive disorder, pregnant women, risk factors.
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