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The table below shows the results of research findings from a survey of 293 students (198 female, 95 male), none of who had a diagnosed mental health problem. The column on the left shows the type of intrusive thought and the 2 columns on the right show the percentage of women and men who said they had experienced that particular thought.

	*item*	*female %*	*male %*
1.	driving into a window	13	16
2.	running car off the road	64	56
3.	hitting animals or people with car	46	54
4.	swerving into traffic	55	52
5.	smashing into objects	27	40
6.	slitting wrist/throat	20	22
7.	cutting off finger	19	16
8.	jumping off a high place	39	46
9.	fatally pushing a stranger	17	34
10.	fatally pushing friend	9	22
11.	jumping in front of train/car	25	29
12.	pushing stranger in front of train/car	8	20
13.	pushing family in front of train/car	5	14
14.	hurting strangers	18	48
15.	insulting strangers	50	59
16.	bumping into people	37	43
17.	insulting authority figure	34	48
18.	insulting family	59	55
19.	hurting family	42	50
20.	choking family member	10	22
21.	stabbing family member	6	11
22.	accidentally leaving heat/stove on	79	66
23.	home unlocked, intruder there	77	69
24.	taps left on, home flooded	28	24
25.	swearing in public	30	34
26.	breaking wind in public	31	49
27.	throwing something	28	26
28.	causing a public scene	47	43
29.	scratching car paint	26	43
30.	breaking window	26	43
31.	wrecking something	32	33
32.	shoplifting	27	33
33.	grabbing money	21	39

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	*item*	*female %*	*male %*
34.	holding up bank	6	32
35.	sex with unacceptable person	48	63
36.	sex with authority figure	38	63
37.	fly/blouse undone	27	40
38.	kissing authority figure	37	44
39.	exposing myself	9	21
40.	acts against sexual preference	19	20
41.	authority figures naked	42	54
42.	strangers naked	51	80
43.	sex in public	49	78
44.	disgusting sex act	43	52
45.	catching sexually transmitted disease	60	43
46.	contamination from doors	35	24
47.	contamination from phones	28	18
48.	getting fatal disease from strangers	22	19
49.	giving fatal disease to strangers	25	17
50.	giving everything away	52	43
51.	removing all dust from the floor	35	24
52.	removing dust from unseen places	41	29

Purdon C. & Clark D. Obsessive intrusive thoughts in nonclinical subjects. Part 1 Content & relation with depressive, anxious & obsessional symptoms. Behav Res Ther 1992;31:713-20

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