TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2009//
TI  - A pilot study of telephone cognitive-behavioural therapy for obsessive-compulsive disorder in young people
JO  - Behavioural and cognitive psychotherapy
A1  - Turner, Cynthia
A1  - Heyman, Isobel
A1  - Futh, Annabel
A1  - Lovell, Karina
SP  - 469
EP  - 474
VL  - 37
IS  - 4
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 1352-4658
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1352465809990178
ID  - ref1
ER  -