Effectiveness and Neuropsychological Predictors of Guided Self-Help for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

Hartford Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Treatments: Behavioral: "OCFighter"

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01659125

DIEF003581HI

Details and patient eligibility

About

The primary aim of this study is to learn about who is most likely to benefit from guided self-help (GSH) for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).

Full description

40 Participants with OCD will be recruited. They will be given access to OC Fighter, an internet OCD treatment program. During the 17 week program, participants will meet with a therapist 9 times. Assessments will occur at pretreatment, post-treatment, 3-month follow up and 6-month follow up.

Enrollment: 26 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 69 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Principal or co-principal diagnosis of OCD
• Clinical global impression score greater than or equal to 4
• Y-BOCS score great than or equal to 8
• Fluency in English
• Capacity to understand the nature of the study and willingness to sign informed consent form

Exclusion criteria

• Active manic episode, psychosis, pervasive developmental disorder, mental retardation
• Concurrent OCD psychotherapy
• Current threat of harm to self or others
• Previous adequate trial of therapist-administered or self-administered exposure and response prevention for OCD

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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26 participants in 1 patient group

OCFighter

Experimental group

Description:

OCFighter

Treatment:

Behavioral: "OCFighter"