Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Religious OCD

The University of Alabama at Birmingham

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

Treatments: Behavioral: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06647589

UAB (Other Grant/Funding Number)

300013565-001

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of the study is to examine the effects and feasibility of a specific form of psychotherapy, acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), on religiously oriented obsessive and compulsive disorder (OCD).

Enrollment: 10 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 18 years old
• Meet cutoff scores for scrupulosity

Exclusion criteria

• Presence of psychotic symptoms within six months of screening
• Current suicidal/homicidal plan/intent and/or a suicide/homicide attempt within 6 months of screening
• Non-suicidal self-injury within 6 months of screening
• Narcotics use within 3 months of screening
• Purging/restricting behavior within 3 months of screening.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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10 participants in 1 patient group

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

Experimental group

Description:

Participants will receive twelve consecutive weeks of acceptance and commitment therapy

Treatment:

Behavioral: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy