خلاصة:
Obsessive-compulsive disorder at clinical levels has elevated symptoms that result in deteriorated psycho-social functions. This study was aimed to examine the effectiveness of cognitive analytic therapy on symptoms severity of obsessive-compulsive disorder Method: This exploratory empirical study was a clinical trial that used quasiexperimental design to systemically investigate the differences in the obsessivecompulsive symptoms before and after one psychotherapeutic intervention. Twenty patients with obsessive compulsive disorder were chosen among
patients who resided in Ravan-Sabz Center of Psychiatric Rehabilitation in Semnan City, Iran from 2012 o 2013. The patients were selected by
inconvenience sampling and randomly assigned to experimental and control group. Participants initially completed the Socio-demographic Questionnaire and interviewed by the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV-TR Axis I Disorders. Then, the Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale was administered in baseline, post-treatment and follow-up. Treatment group merely received 16 sessions of group cognitive analytic therapy and eventually both groups were assessed in post-treatment and a three- month follow-up Results: Mixed analysis of variance with repeated measures showed that symptoms severity of obsessive compulsive disorder was significantly
decreased at post-treatment and three-month follow-up in the treatment group as
compared to the control group (F1,18 = 15.05, P< 0.001). The interaction of
intervention and factor of time resulted in decreased symptoms severity in posttreatment
and follow-up (F2,36 = 22.53, P< 0.001).
ملخص الجهاز:
Iranian Journal of Clinical Psychology (IJCP), Vol. 2, Issue 1, 2014; ISSN: 2322-1585 / <H1>The Effectiveness of Cognitive Analytic Therapy on the Severity of Symptoms in Patients with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder</H1> Isaac Rahimian Boogar1* (Ph. D.
This study was aimed to examine the effectiveness of cognitive analytic therapy on symptoms severity in patients with obsessive- compulsive disorder in outpatient treatment setting.
<H3>Method</H3> This study is a clinical trial with a control group that used the quasi-experimental design to examine the differences in the severity of symptoms as dependent variables for patients with obsessive- compulsive disorder before and after one course of group cognitive analytic therapy as independent variable in a systematic manner in terms of three measures of pre-treatment, post-treatment and follow-up.
Participants in the two group initially completed the Socio- demographic Questionnaire and were interviewed by the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV- TR Axis I Disorders (SCID) by trained clinicians, then the Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale (Y-BOCS) as a measure of symptoms severity were administered in baseline (pre-treatment), 4 months afterwards (post-treatment) and 3 months after the intervention termination (follow-up).
The YBOCS was regarded like the &quot;gold standard&quot; for assessing the severity and intensity of OCD symptoms and treatment response among adults (Goodman, Price, Rasmussen, Mazure, Fleischmann, Hill, et al, 1989; do Rosario-Campos, Miguel, Quatrano, Chacon, Ferrao, Findley, et al, 2006).
(View the image of this page)<H3>Discussion</H3> This study was performed to investigate the effectiveness of cognitive analytic therapy on symptoms severity in patients with obsessive- compulsive disorder in one Iranian outpatient sample.