Can I read A Pilot Study of Computer-Aided Vicarious Exposure for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder on EtoBox?

A Pilot Study of Computer-Aided Vicarious Exposure for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder by Augustino Clark; Kenneth C. Kirkby; Brett A. Daniels; Isaac M. Marks is a Psychology article available to read on EtoBox.

What is A Pilot Study of Computer-Aided Vicarious Exposure for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder about?

Objective: This study reports the use of an interactive computer program to instruct vicarious exposure and ritual prevention for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Method: Thirteen OCD volunteers and 10 non-OCD volunteers completed three 45-minute sessions at weekly intervals. Subjects with OCD completed the Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale (Y-BOCS), the Padua Inventory (PI) and the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) 1 week prior to and 1 week after the three computer treatment sessions. Non-OCD subjects only completed these measures at baseline, allowing confirmation that they had no significant level of OCD symptomatology. Results: In the OCD subjects, scores fell significantly on the PI and BDI, and Y-BOCS scores fell non-significantly. Engagement in vicarious exposure with ritual prevention improved from sessions 1–3. Compared to the non-OCD participants, OCD subjects did less vicarious exposure in session 1 but not sessions 2 and 3. Performance of vicarious exposure by OCD subjects in session 1 correlated with pre-post improvement in PI and BDI scores. Conclusions: The vicarious exposure program may have a role to play as an adjunct in behaviour therapy.

Who reads A Pilot Study of Computer-Aided Vicarious Exposure for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder?

Author

Augustino Clark; Kenneth C. Kirkby; Brett A. Daniels; Isaac M. Marks

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Published

1998

Language

EN

Field

Psychology (Social Sciences)