Predictors of Acute Outcomes for Intensive Residential Treatment of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.

Predictors of Acute Outcomes for Intensive Residential Treatment of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. Clin Psychol Psychother. 2019 Jul 04;: Authors: Siwiec SG, Riemann BC, Lee HJ Abstract For those who suffer with chronic and disruptive obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), who have not been sufficiently helped by outpatient treatments or medications, intensive residential treatment (IRT) is often the next best treatment option. To date, research of the predictors of treatment outcome in IRT for OCD are mixed, and sometimes contradictory. Additionally, while comorbidity is common for patients in this setting, the inclusion of comorbidity as a potential predictor of outcome has been mostly lacking in research to date. The current study aimed to address these issues by utilizing optimal indices of treatment outcomes, while incorporating comorbidity into our analyses, in order to identify the predictors of treatment outcomes in the IRT for OCD setting. To this end, we analyzed outcome data from 379 patients receiving IRT for OCD at the Rogers Memorial OCD Center between August, 2012, and December, 2017. Results indicated the most important predictor of treatment outcome was obsession severity at admission. Specifically, higher obsession severity at admission predicted poorer treatment outcomes at discharge. Clinical implications and suggestions for future research were discussed in the manuscript. PMID: 31273851 [PubMed - as suppli...
Source: Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy - Category: Psychiatry Tags: Clin Psychol Psychother Source Type: research