A solid majority remit following evidence-based OCD treatments: a 3-year naturalistic outcome study in pediatric OCDShow others and affiliations
2018 (English)In: European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, ISSN 1018-8827, E-ISSN 1435-165X, Vol. 27, no 10, p. 1373-1381Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
This study reports follow-up 2 and 3 years after the initial assessment of a sample of youth with a primary diagnosis of OCD. Participants were 109 children and adolescents, aged 5-17 years, recruited from a specialized, outpatient OCD clinic in Sweden. Patients were treated with cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), augmented when indicated by selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI). In cases where SSRIs were insufficient, augmentation with a second-generation antipsychotic (SGA) was applied. Participants were assessed with the Children's Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale (CY-BOCS), Children's OCD Impact Scale (COIS), and Children's Depressive Inventory (CDI) at follow-ups 2 and 3 years after baseline assessment. Treatment response was defined as CY-BOCS total score ≤ 15, and remission was defined as CY-BOCS total score ≤ 10. Analyzing the outcomes with linear mixed-effects models (LME) showed a decrease in OCD symptom load from 23 to 6.9 at the 3-year follow-up. Moreover, two of three (66.1%) participants were in remission, and another 19.2% had responded to treatment at the 3-year follow-up. Thus, 85.3% of participants responded to treatment. Moreover, during the follow-up period, participants' psychosocial functioning had significantly improved, and depressive symptoms had significantly decreased. The results suggest that evidence-based treatment for pediatric OCD, following expert consensus guidelines, has long-term positive effects for most children and adolescents diagnosed with OCD. The results also indicate that improvements are maintained over a 3-year period, at least, and that improvement is also found with regard to psychosocial functioning and depressive symptoms. © 2018 Springer International Publishing AG
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Heidelberg: Springer, 2018. Vol. 27, no 10, p. 1373-1381
Keywords [en]
Cognitive behavioral therapy, Follow-up, Long term, Obsessive–compulsive disorder, Pediatric, Serotonin uptake inhibitors, Treatment outcome
National Category
Psychiatry
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-36379DOI: 10.1007/s00787-018-1137-9ISI: 000445887500011PubMedID: 29502315Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85045036176OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hh-36379DiVA, id: diva2:1187383
2018-03-042018-03-042020-02-03Bibliographically approved