{"id":2017,"date":"2012-03-24T08:12:43","date_gmt":"2012-03-24T13:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/?p=2017"},"modified":"2012-03-24T15:15:48","modified_gmt":"2012-03-24T20:15:48","slug":"study-looks-at-characteristics-that-may-predict-response-to-ocd-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/2012\/03\/study-looks-at-characteristics-that-may-predict-response-to-ocd-treatment\/","title":{"rendered":"Study looks at characteristics that may predict response to OCD treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <em>Journal of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics<\/em> press release via AlphaGalileo:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"hand-washing\" src=\"http:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/images\/blogpics\/Handwashing.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"290\" height=\"193\" \/>An investigation that is published in the current issue of <em>Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics<\/em> addresses the modalities of response to treatment in an invalidating form of anxiety disorder, obsessive-compulsive illness.<\/p>\n<p>The present study examined sudden gains during treatment for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and their relationship to short- and long-term outcome. Ninety-one individuals (age 19\u201364) completed either cognitive treatment, exposure treatment, or their combination with fluvoxamine for OCD. Participants\u2019 obsessive-compulsive symptoms were assessed before each weekly treatment session. In addition, obsessive-compulsive and depressive symptoms were assessed pre treatment and post treatment as well as 12 months following treatment termination. <strong>Sudden gains were found among 34.1% of participants and constituted 65.5% of the total reduction in obsessive-compulsive symptoms<\/strong>. Compared to individuals who did not experience sudden gains, <strong>individuals who experienced sudden gains reported lower levels of OCD symptoms post treatment<\/strong>, and this was maintained during follow-up. <strong>Sudden gains are common in treatments for OCD and are predictive of treatment outcome and follow-up<\/strong>. Sudden gains mark a distinct trajectory of response to treatment for OCD. Individuals with sudden gains greatly improve during treatment and maintain their gains during follow-up, whereas individuals without sudden gains improve to a significantly lesser extent. Thus, treatment planning and development can benefit from considering sudden gains and the intra-individual course of improvement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Journal of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics press release via AlphaGalileo: An investigation that is published in the current issue of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics addresses the modalities of response to&#8230; <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/2012\/03\/study-looks-at-characteristics-that-may-predict-response-to-ocd-treatment\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[298,206,51],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2017"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2018,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2017\/revisions\/2018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}