How to treat the untreated: effectiveness of a self-help metacognitive training program (myMCT) for obsessive-compulsive disorder

Figures & data

Appendix The myMCT comprises 14 sections which deal with the following themes.

Table I Baseline differences between the myMCT and waitlist group

Figure 1. Patients in the myMCT group showed greater improvement on the Y-BOCS total score than the waitlist group who numerically slightly worsened (P<.01, d=.63). This result was especially owing to a decline on obsessions (P<.005, d=.69), while symptom decline on the compulsions subscore was margina and insignificant (P>.1, d=.20)

Figure 2. Group differences on the OCI-R and BDI-SF. Patients in the myMCT group showed significantly more decline than the waitlist group on the OCI-R total score (P<.001, d=.70) as well as BDI-SF (P<.05, d=.50). Subanalyses showed especially strong improvements for the OC obsessing subscale. For OCI-R hoarding, the difference also turned out significant, but the improvement in the myMCT group was rather small

Table II Subjective appraisal of the myMCT (n=27).

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