Controlled Study on the Effectiveness of an Online Group Treatment Intervention Program for Cybersex Addiction / Online Sexual Compulsivity: Comparison With an Individual Program and a Wait List Control

Semi-Structured Clinical Interview for the assessment of Compulsive Sexual Behavior (SSCI-CSB) (Castro-Calvo et al., in review)

时间窗: Baseline; Upon treatment completion, an average of 12 weeks; Follow-up at 1, 3, 6, and 12 months

This is a pioneering interview that allows a criterial evaluation of the patient. It asks about the different types of online and offline sexual behavior, both in terms of whether or not they are performed, as well as the percentage of sexual behavior they represent, the weekly time spent, the weekly orgasms obtained through this behavior, the discomfort it produces and the degree of control over it. From there, a series of questions related to 16 symptoms grouped around 9 criteria are developed. Then the onset, evolution, clinical course and search for therapeutic help are explored, and on the final sheet all the information can be summarized with the novelty that the diagnosis can be established according to the criteria of three classifications of three different authors (Carnes, Goodman and Kafka).

Internet Sex Screening Test (ISST) Delmonico (1997)

时间窗: Baseline; Upon treatment completion, an average of 12 weeks; Follow-up at 1, 3, 6, and 12 months

Spanish adaptation by Ballester, Gil, Gómez and Gil (2010). The original version includes 25 true/false items and measures online sexual behavior. Validating the original instrument with general population (through online self-administration), exploratory factor analysis revealed five factors (Delmonico and Miller, 2003): Online Sexual Compulsivity, Online Social Sexual Behavior, Online Solitary Sexual Behavior; Online Sexual Expense; and Online Sexual Behavior Interest. In addition, it includes two single-item scales. The first assesses the use of a computer outside the home for sexual purposes and the second explores access to illegal sexual material. The remaining items do not form part of any single factor. Their reliability ranged from 0.51 to 0.86. After a process of translation and adaptation of the questionnaire following the international guidelines established for this purpose (Balluerka et al., 2007; Hambleton et al., 2005)

Hypersexual Behavior Inventory (Reid, Garos & Carpenter, 2011)

时间窗: Baseline; Upon treatment completion, an average of 12 weeks; Follow-up at 1, 3, 6, and 12 months

This 19-item instrument with Likert-type response format (1=Never / 5=Many times) was designed to assess the three basic dimensions of hypersexuality. As noted in the introduction, the HI has been validated only in a male clinical population. In this sample, the resulting factor structure replicated the criteria under which the HI was designed. First, a factor called "Coping" (items 1, 3, 6, 8, 13, 16 and 18), which would reflect the use of sex as a means of controlling negative emotional states; secondly, another factor, "Control" (items 2, 4, 7, 10, 11, 12, 15 and 17), whose content would denote deficits in controlling sexual thoughts, impulses or behaviors; and the last factor, "Consequences" (items 5, 9, 14 and 19), which would explore persistence in sexual behavior despite the negative consequences derived. The authors obtained a high correlation between them. Reliability for each scale ranged from 0.89 to 0.95.

Sexual Compulsivity Scale (Kalichman & Rompa, 1995)

时间窗: Baseline; Upon treatment completion, an average of 12 weeks; Follow-up at 1, 3, 6, and 12 months

Spanish version adapted and validated for application in Spain (in preparation). This questionnaire will be used as a screening instrument from which a group of participants with sexual compulsivity problems and another group of similar number, sex, age and sexual orientation without this type of problem will be selected. The cut-off point to be used will be the same as that used by the author of the scale, the 80th percentile. Internal consistency of 0.84.

Compulsive Sexual Behavior Inventory (CSBI) (Coleman, Miner, Ohlerking & Raymond, 2001)

时间窗: Baseline; Upon treatment completion, an average of 12 weeks; Follow-up at 1, 3, 6, and 12 months

28-item self-report scale that assesses the severity of symptoms of sexual compulsivity. This questionnaire is of interest because it not only includes a global measure of sexual compulsivity but also the type of compulsive paraphilic behavior (exhibitionism, sadism, phone calls, fetishism...) or non-paraphilic behavior (compulsive cruising, compulsive fixation on an unattainable partner, compulsive search for new experiences and partners, multiple sexual partners, sexual compulsivity within a specific relationship and compulsive autoeroticism).

Cognitive and Behavioral Outcomes of Sexual Behavior Scale (CBOSB) (McBride, Reece & Perera, 2006)

时间窗: Baseline; Upon treatment completion, an average of 12 weeks; Follow-up at 1, 3, 6, and 12 months

Following the list of consequences that may result from sexual compulsivity identified by the Society for the Advancement of the Sexual Health and classified into six domains, the authors developed this scale that records both the individual's concern about the consequences that may result from his or her sexual behavior and the fact that he or she is actually experiencing such consequences. The six domains (economic, legal, physical, psychological, spiritual and social) were identified by the National Council on Sexual Addiction and Compulsivity, NCSAC (2004) and are translated into a total of 20 items referring to cognitive aspects evaluated on a scale of 0 to 4 (never to always) and another 16 dichotomous response items that evaluate the behavioral consequences.