Exposure therapy in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) in a virtual reality (VR): a randomized controlled trial
Not Applicable
- Conditions
- F42Obsessive-compulsive disorder
- Registration Number
- DRKS00016929
- Lead Sponsor
- niversitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Complete
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 80
Inclusion Criteria
• consent to participate in study (informed consent)
• sufficient understanding of the German language
• willingness to participate in two assessment as well as to participate in an online-/telephone assessment three months after post assessment
• willingness to participate in a 6-weeks exposure therapy
• presence of OCD with compulsive checking and/or washing
Exclusion Criteria
• lifetime schizophrenia (F.20) or bipolar disorder
• severe neuropsychological disease
• acute suicidal tendencies
Study & Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale (Y-BOCS): The Y-BOCS is regarded as gold-standard for the assessment of OCD symptoms and symptom severity during the last week (baseline-, post- and follow-up).
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method