Comparison of the Effectiveness of Treatment based on Correcting of Secondary Control Appraisals and Treatment based on Correcting of Inflated Responsibility in Patients with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Print

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of the treatment based on correcting of secondary control appraisals in patients with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and comparing it with treatment based on correcting of inflated responsibility. The method of present study was quasi-experimental and pre-post test design was used. The experimental groups contained treatment based on correcting of secondary control appraisalsgroup (n=12) and treatment based on correcting of inflated responsibility group (n=15). Both groups received ten two-hour group sessions once a week. In control group 13 patients participated. Yale Brown Obsessive-Compulsive scale (YBOCS), Obsessive Beliefs Questionnaire (OBQ-44) and Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) were used to assess severity of OCD, Obsessive beliefs and Depression. Data were analyzed using Multiple Covariance Analysis in SPSS. The results suggested that based on scores of YBOCS, OBQ-44 and BDI, both treatment based on correcting of secondary control appraisals and treatment based on correcting of inflated responsibility were significantly more effective than the wait list control conditionand treatment based on correcting of secondary control appraisals significantly more effective than treatment based on correcting of inflated responsibility in post-test and follow-up. This superiority maintained over the 1month follow-up. According to the findings of present study, treatment based on correcting of secondary control appraisals was more effective than treatment based on correcting of inflated responsibility in treatment of patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder.