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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
medicine
Age of onset of trichotillomania symptoms: Investigating clinical correlates
Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, Volume 198, No. 12, Year 2010
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Description
Pathological hair-pulling with onset in very early childhood is thought to represent a different disorder from that with later onset. We examined whether there are differences between adult hair-pullers with very early onset (VEO, i.e., <6 years), early onset (EO, i.e., 6 years to <18 years), and late onset (LO, i.e., ≥18 years) trichotillomania symptomatology. Participants with VEO (n = 76; 5%), EO (n = 1280; 80%), and LO (n = 248; 15%) symptoms of trichotillomania did not differ significantly from one another in terms of hair-pulling phenomenologies, comorbidity, functional impact, and perceived treatment response. However, hair-pulling sites varied across the groups; the VEO and EO groups were significantly more likely to pull eyelashes whereas the EO group was more likely to pull pubic hair. Study subjects had current hair-pulling, so biasing the sample to those with more enduring symptoms, despite differences in age of onset of initial pulling. The lack of significant differences found here does not support subtyping hair-pulling by age of onset in patients who present in adulthood. Copyright © 2010 by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
Authors & Co-Authors
Flessner, Christopher A.
United States, Providence
Bradley Hasbro Children's Research Center
United States, Providence
The Warren Alpert Medical School
Lochner, Christine
South Africa, Stellenbosch
Stellenbosch University
Stein, Dan J.
South Africa, Stellenbosch
Stellenbosch University
South Africa, Cape Town
University of Cape Town
Woods, D. W.
United States, Milwaukee
University of Wisconsin-milwaukee
Franklin, Martin E.
Unknown Affiliation
Keuthen, Nancy J.
United States, Boston
Massachusetts General Hospital
Statistics
Citations: 30
Authors: 6
Affiliations: 6
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1097/NMD.0b013e3181fe7423
ISSN:
00223018
Research Areas
Maternal And Child Health