The neuropsychological profiles of children treated with standard CBT for OCD are evaluated.
The neuropsychological profiles of children treated with standard CBT for the treatment of OCD will be compared at pre-treatment and post-treatment. Children between the ages of 8 and 16 years who have a primary diagnosis of OCD will be participants. Treatment will last 12 weeks.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
3
Participants complete standard CBT for OCD as delivered in the POTS study .
Texas Child Study Center
Austin, Texas, United States
Children's Yale Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale measures change in severity of OCD symptoms from baseline to post-treatment and assesses maintenance of treatment effects at one year and two year follow-up assessments.
Measures presence and severity of obsessions and compulsions.
Time frame: Baseline (one week prior to start of treatment, post treatment (within one week of completing treatment) and follow-ups (six months, and at one year intervals for up to two years following treatment)
Anxiety Disorders Interview Schedule-Diagnostic and Statistical Manual-IV measures change in severity of OCD symptoms from baseline to post-treatment and assesses maintenance of treatment effects at one year and two year follow-up assessments.
Interview measure of the presence of OCD, related anxiety disorders and other psychological disorders of childhood.
Time frame: Baseline (one week prior to starting treatment)
Clinical Global Impression Severity and Improvement Scales measures change in severity of OCD and co-morbid disorders from baseline to post-treatment and assesses maintenance of treatment effects at one year and two year follow-up assessments.
Measure of the severity of the disorders and their improvement as a result of treatment
Time frame: Baseline (one week prior to start of treatment, post treatment (within one week of completing treatment) and follow-ups (six months, and at one year intervals for up to two years following treatment)
Global Assessment Scale for Children measures change in overall functioning from baseline to post-treatment and assesses maintenance of treatment effects at one year and two year follow-up assessments.
Assesses the overall general functioning of youth under the age of 18.
Time frame: Baseline (one week prior to start of treatment, post treatment (within one week of completing treatment) and follow-ups (six months, and at one year intervals for up to two years following treatment)
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Child Obsessive-Compulsive Inventory measures change in severity of OCD symptoms from baseline to post-treatment and assesses maintenance of treatment effects at one year and two year follow-up assessments.
Assessment of presence of obsessive compulsive symptoms over the past week.
Time frame: Baseline (one week prior to start of treatment, post treatment (within one week of completing treatment) and follow-ups (six months, and at one year intervals for up to two years following treatment)
Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function measures change in executive functioning from baseline to post-treatment and assesses maintenance of treatment effects at one year and two year follow-up assessments.
Neuropsychological measure of executive functioning
Time frame: Baseline (one week prior to start of treatment, post treatment (within one week of completing treatment) and follow-ups (six months, and at one year intervals for up to two years following treatment)
Multidimensional Anxiety Scale for Children measures change in severity of anxiety symptoms from baseline to post-treatment and assesses maintenance of treatment effects at one year and two year follow-up assessments.
Measure of the presence and severity of anxiety symptoms.
Time frame: Baseline (one week prior to start of treatment, post treatment (within one week of completing treatment) and follow-ups (six months, and at one year intervals for up to two years following treatment)
Child Behavior Checklist measures change in severity internalizing and externalizing symptoms from baseline to post-treatment and assesses maintenance of treatment effects at one year and two year follow-up assessments.
Broadband measure of child's psychological functioning.
Time frame: Baseline (one week prior to start of treatment, post treatment (within one week of completing treatment) and follow-ups (six months, and at one year intervals for up to two years following treatment)
Screen for Child Anxiety and Related Emotional Disorders measures change in severity of anxiety and other disorders from baseline to post-treatment and assesses maintenance of treatment effects at one year and two year follow-up assessments.
Measure of the presence and severity of a wide range of emotional disorders.
Time frame: Baseline (one week prior to start of treatment, post treatment (within one week of completing treatment) and follow-ups (six months, and at one year intervals for up to two years following treatment)
Brief Symptom Interview measures change in severity of parental psychopathology from baseline to post-treatment and assesses maintenance of treatment effects at one year and two year follow-up assessments.
Measure of parental psychopathology
Time frame: Baseline (one week prior to start of treatment, post treatment (within one week of completing treatment) and follow-ups (six months, and at one year intervals for up to two years following treatment)
Family Accommodation Scale measures change in parental accommodation from baseline to post-treatment and assesses maintenance of treatment effects at one year and two year follow-up assessments.
Measure of the degree to which parents accommodate to their child's OCD.
Time frame: Baseline (one week prior to start of treatment, post treatment (within one week of completing treatment) and follow-ups (six months, and at one year intervals for up to two years following treatment)
Test of Everyday Attention-Children's Version measures change in attention from baseline to post-treatment and assesses maintenance of treatment effects at one year and two year follow-up assessments.
Neuropsychological measure of the participant's selective, divided, sustained and switching attention
Time frame: Baseline (one week prior to start of treatment, post treatment (within one week of completing treatment) and follow-ups (six months, and at one year intervals for up to two years following treatment)
Wisconsin Card Sorting Test Revised and Expanded measures change in executive functioning from baseline to post-treatment and assesses maintenance of treatment effects at one year and two year follow-up assessments.
Neuropsychological measure of executive functioning
Time frame: Baseline (one week prior to start of treatment, post treatment (within one week of completing treatment) and follow-ups (six months, and at one year intervals for up to two years following treatment)
Delis-Kaplan Executive Function System measures change in executive functioning from baseline to post-treatment and assesses maintenance of treatment effects at one year and two year follow-up assessments.
Neuropsychological test of a variety of verbal and nonverbal executive functions.
Time frame: Baseline (one week prior to start of treatment, post treatment (within one week of completing treatment) and follow-ups (six months, and at one year intervals for up to two years following treatment)
Children's Color Trails Test measures change in cognitive flexibility from baseline to post-treatment and assesses maintenance of treatment effects at one year and two year follow-up assessments.
Neuropsychological test of cognitive flexibility
Time frame: Baseline (one week prior to start of treatment, post treatment (within one week of completing treatment) and follow-ups (six months, and at one year intervals for up to two years following treatment)
The Conners' Continuous Performance Test II Version 5measures change in continuous attention from baseline to post-treatment and assesses maintenance of treatment effects at one year and two year follow-up assessments.
Neuropsychological measure of continuous attention.
Time frame: Baseline (one week prior to start of treatment, post treatment (within one week of completing treatment) and follow-ups (six months, and at one year intervals for up to two years following treatment)