Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 44, Issue 2 , Pages 162-168 , March 2003

Treatment seeking for obsessive-compulsive disorder: Role of obsessive-compulsive disorder symptoms and comorbid psychiatric diagnoses

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☆ Supported by the National Health Research and Development Program, Alberta Mental Health Research Fund, and Alberta Health. Preparation of this paper was also supported by an Investigator Award (Fonds de la Recherche en Santé du Québec) to G.G.F.

☆☆ Address reprint requests to Guillaume Galbaud du Fort, M.D, Ph.D, Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Community Studies,, The Sir Mortimer B. Davis-Jewish General Hospital, 3755 Côte Ste-Catherine, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3T 1E2.

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doi: 10.1053/comp.2003.50005

Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 44, Issue 2 , Pages 162-168 , March 2003

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