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Original Articles

Prevalence, comorbidity, quality of life and use of services of obsessive-compulsive disorder and subthreshold obsessive-compulsive symptoms in the general adult population of Greece

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Pages 215-224 | Received 23 Aug 2018, Accepted 19 Feb 2019, Published online: 15 Apr 2019

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