Xitong Liu, Juanzi Shi, Ben W Mol, Haiyan Bai
Impact of maternal education level on live birth rate after in vitro fertilization in China: a retrospective cohort study
Journal of assisted reproduction and genetics
previous research highlighted role dysfunctional reasoning processes ie inferential confusion development maintenance obsessivecompulsive disorder ocd inferential confusion previously found unique predictor oc symptoms shown specificity ocd however findings primarily relied single selfreport questionnaire limited number experimentations conducted establish specificity inferential confusion ocd alternate measures current paper demonstrates relationship inferential confusion ocd symptoms clinical samples using taskbased measure inferential confusion sixtyfour ocd participants well thirty anxious thirtyfour healthy controls completed recently developed dysfunctional reasoning processes task drpt related measures thirtyfive ocd participants completed sixteen sessions cognitivebehavioural therapy cbt completed measures posttreatment predicted dysfunctional reasoning significantly elevated ocd relative control groups reduced levels dysfunctional reasoning cbt significantly associated successful treatment outcome clinical implications interpreted caution due relatively small sample size findings support notion inferential confusion important cognitive factor particularly relevant ocd needs directly addressed mechanism change cbt