@article{ref1,
title="A pilot study of telephone cognitive-behavioural therapy for obsessive-compulsive disorder in young people",
journal="Behavioural and cognitive psychotherapy",
year="2009",
author="Turner, Cynthia and Heyman, Isobel and Futh, Annabel and Lovell, Karina",
volume="37",
number="4",
pages="469-474",
abstract="BACKGROUND: Cognitive-behaviour therapy (CBT) is the recommended psychological treatment for obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) in young people. Access to CBT may be limited by a number of factors, including lack of trained therapists, and geographic or financial factors preventing access to a specialized service. Telephone delivery of CBT represents one way of overcoming some of these accessibility issues. This pilot study describes outcomes for a telephone-based cognitive-behavioural treatment for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) in young people. METHOD: Ten participants, aged 13 to 17 years, and their parents received up to 16 sessions of telephone CBT (TCBT). Measures of OCD symptoms were obtained using multiple informants and a repeated measures design. Assessments were conducted at pre-treatment, post-treatment, and at 6- and 12-month follow-up. RESULTS: Improvements were found for OCD symptoms across all informants. Family satisfaction with treatment over the telephone was high. CONCLUSIONS: The findings suggest that TCBT is a clinically effective, feasible and acceptable means of service delivery that offers the potential to make CBT a more accessible treatment for young people. TCBT requires further evaluation in randomized, controlled trials to compare effectiveness with face-to-face CBT, which currently represents the usual care model.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1352-4658",
doi="10.1017/S1352465809990178",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1352465809990178"
}