The Prevalence of Misophonia and Its Relationship with Obsessive-compulsive Disorder, Anxiety, and Depression in Undergraduate Students of Shiraz University of Medical Sciences: A Cross-Sectional Study.

The study measured self-reported questionnaire scores, not clinical diagnoses. The design was cross-sectional, so it cannot show which condition came first or whether one caused another. The participants were undergraduate health students at one university, not patients in a clinic. Some faculties, including Rehabilitation, did not cooperate, so the sample was not complete across all student groups. The study did not examine several possible factors such as living in a large city, daily music or caffeine use, sleep per day, or number of family members.

The work was part of a thesis supported by Shiraz University of Medical Sciences under grant 20828. Agrin Mohammadi obtained the funding, and the named authors were responsible for study design, data collection, analysis, drafting and critical revision.

Do not read the higher rates of obsessive-compulsive disorder, anxiety and depression among students with misophonia as proof that misophonia causes these conditions or that these conditions cause misophonia. The study measured self-reported symptoms at one time in students, so it cannot establish cause or direction.