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Bangladesh Journal of Psychiatry · October 5, 2026
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Though Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is a common chronic psychiatric disorder nevertheless studies on OCD among medical students in Bangladesh and worldwide are very scant. Overseas medical students face various kinds of stressful conditions but no study was present regarding OCD among overseas medical students in Bangladesh. The purpose of this study was to estimate the prevalence of OCD among overseas medical students and to find out other correlates. This cross-sectional study was carried out at all the private and government medical colleges in Sylhet Division, Bangladesh from March, 2022 to February, 2023. Total 138 (n=138) students were selected from total population using total population purposive sampling method. They completed the obsessive-compulsive Inventory Revised (OCI-R); the Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Scale version 21 (DASS-21); the Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale (Y-BOCS). OCD was confirmed by the authors by using Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5) criteria. Most of students (n=85, 61.6%) were female, Hindu (n=59, 42.8%) and all of them were unmarried. A few (n=7, 5.1%) reported of positive family history of a psychiatric illness and 29.0% perceived their family as overprotective. After applying OCI-R, Obsessive compulsive symptom (OCS) was present in 76 (55.1%) students. DSM-5 application revealed OCD was present among 20 (14.5%) students. OCD was significantly associated with family history of psychiatric illness (χ2: 30.184; p<0.001), illicit drug intake (χ2: 11.974; p<0.05) and over protective family (χ2: 5.018; p<0.001). Both OCS and OCD was also significantly associated with depression, anxiety and stress score. As these students had not yet faced the challenges of medical colleges but still had high level of psychopathology; this implies, steps should be taken to reduce anxiety, stress from education system and students from their high school years should undergo periodic mental health screening and training to build mental resilience. Bang J Psychiatry 2024;38(2): 42-48