Internet Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

Karolinska Institute

Status: Completed

Conditions: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Treatments: Behavioral: Internet CBT

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01348529

OCDP1

Details and patient eligibility

About

The main aim of this study is to test whether cognitive behavior therapy could be effective in treating obsessive compulsive disorder. Here, the investigators test the in group effects of a 15 week long treatment delivered via the Internet for residents in Stockholm County.

Enrollment: 23 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Diagnosed with Obsessive compulsive disorder according to the DSM criteria
• Be at least 18 years old
• YBOCS >7

Exclusion criteria

• other primary diagnosis
• substance abuse,
• psychosis,
• bipolar disorder,
• suicidal ideation,
• adjusted pharmacological treatment the last two months
• current psychological treatment for OCD,
• been treated with CBT the last two years,
• serious somatic disease,
• Y---BOCS>31
• hoarding as primary OCD subtype

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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23 participants in 1 patient group

Internet CBT

Experimental group

Description:

Internet-delivered cognitive behavioral therapy with therapist support.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Internet CBT