Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-lj6df Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-08T09:18:00.141Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Objective and subjective improvement after a new form of cognitive and behavioral therapy for obsessive compulsive disorder patients

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 April 2020

M. Morgieve
Affiliation:
Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France
A.-H. Clair
Affiliation:
Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France
A. Saulton
Affiliation:
Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France
K. N’Diaye
Affiliation:
Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France
A. Pelissolo
Affiliation:
Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France
L. Mallet
Affiliation:
Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France

Abstract

Core share and HTML view are not available for this content. However, as you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button.
Introduction

Cognitive and Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is one of the two treatments recognized as most efficient to improve Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) symptoms.

Objectives

The major aim of this study is to facilitate CBT for OCD checkers. To this purpose, we developed a new psycho-pedagogic tool to be used during CBT sessions and assessed its objective efficacy and the patients’ perception of their therapy.

Methodology

Experimental CBT sessions included a “checking task”, composed of a “matching task” followed by a “checking phase” during which subjects were given the opportunity to check or to confirm their prior answer. This tool was appended to a classical CBT (as described in the literature).

30 OCD patients with checking compulsions each followed 15 individual CBT sessions with a psychologist. They were randomized in two groups: a “reference CBT” (CBT classically described in literature) and an “experimental CBT” (reference CBT + checking task) group. Symptom severity was assessed by the Y-BOCS and CGI at three main stages of the therapies: before, at half-therapy, at the end of therapy and 6 months later. Assessment was performed blindly by an expert psychologist to avoid any bias, and the patients’ impressions were collected at the same time.

Results

At the end of therapies, symptom severity decreased significantly (24.08 to 12.5) and participants had a better global functioning, especially in their social and familial lives.

Conclusions

Both CBT offer an important clinical improvement of OCD symptoms. Patients and psychologists expressed their satisfaction at having participated to the study.

Type
P02-379
Copyright
Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2011
Submit a response

Comments

No Comments have been published for this article.