Anthony Byrne, Anna Torrens-Burton, Stephanie Sivell, Fabio Ynoe Moraes, Helen Bulbeck, Mark Bernstein, Annmarie Nelson, Helen Fielding
Early palliative interventions for improving outcomes in people with a primary malignant brain tumour and their carers
The Cochrane database of systematic reviews
inferencebased therapy ibt novel therapeutic approach aimed reducing obsessivecompulsive symptoms study original therapistguided protocol adapted selfhelp administration fifty patients obsessivecompulsive disorder recruited via specialized online fora randomly allocated either ibt waitlist control condition baseline 4 weeks later questionnaires tapping psychopathology quality life faulty reasoning administered completion rate acceptable 74 significantly different across groups relative controls patients ibt group showed modest significant symptom decline obsessions yalebrown obsessivecompulsive scale ybocs selfreport obsessivecompulsive inventoryrevised ocir washing compulsions ocir across time significant differences emerged depression quality life inferential confusion ratings postassessment suggest training well accepted among patients testretest reliability high indicating good quality data study confirms prior research suggesting ibt effective standalone technique followup studies needed elucidate longterm effects training whether positive effects maintained ibt introduced addon standard treatment ie cognitive behavioral therapymedication