doi: 10.18178/ijiet.2017.7.3.868
The Effectiveness of Cognitive Analytic Therapy on the Severity of Symptoms in Patients with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Abstract
This study was aimed to examine the effectiveness of cognitive analytic therapy on symptoms severity of obsessive-compulsive disorder. This was a empirical study. Twenty patients with obsessive compulsive disorder 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. 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 post-treatment and follow-up (F2,36 = 22.53, P < 0.001).The group cognitive analytic therapy is an effective and longstanding therapy for symptoms management of obsessive compulsive disorder.
Keywords
- Cognitive analytic
- therapy
- obsessive-compulsive
- disorder
How to Cite
M. Arab Ameri, A. Yousefi, S. Adl Rad, and F. Rasouli Khorshidi, "The Effectiveness of Cognitive Analytic Therapy on the Severity of Symptoms in Patients with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder," International Journal of Information and Education Technology, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 212-216, 2017. https://doi.org/10.18178/ijiet.2017.7.3.868
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