Comparing Exposure v Imagery Rescripting in People With OCD: a SCED

King's College London

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

Treatments: Other: Imagery intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06944366

IRAS Project ID: 342003

Details and patient eligibility

About

Individuals with OCD may experience intrusive future orientated thoughts and images, which are extremely distressing and interfering in life. This project aims to explore whether imagery rescripting or exposure may be a more effective intervention for individuals with OCD experiencing such images.

Enrollment: 10 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 18 years or over
• Main diagnosis of OCD (assessed by the Structured Clinical Interview for ICD11)
• Must report future orientated images that are distressing and ego-dystonic

Exclusion criteria

• Psychosis, bipolar disorder, or trauma disorder
• Current stimulant or hallucinogenic misuse, alcohol or substance misuse or dependence
• Intellectual disability, dementia, serious cognitive impairment, or organic brain disorder
• Personality Disorder as the main problem
• Active suicidality
• Concurrent engagement in other psychotherapy
• A patient may be taking anti-depressant medication so long as the dose has been stable for 6 weeks and there is no plan to increase the dose.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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10 participants in 2 patient groups

ImR

Experimental group

Description:

ImR completed as first intervention then ImExp

Treatment:

Other: Imagery intervention

ImExp

Experimental group

Description:

ImExp completed then ImR

Treatment:

Other: Imagery intervention