title: Treatment motivation, treatment expectancy, and helping alliance as predictors of outcome in cognitive behavioral treatment of OCD.
abstract: Predictors of improvement in obsessive-compulsive symptoms (Y-BOCS) in a randomized clinical trial with adult obsessive-compulsive disorder outpatients were examined. Results of multiple regression analyses revealed that a positive helping alliance was significantly predictive of posttreatment Y-BOCS. Treatment expectancy and high motivation to change were not significantly related to posttreatment outcome. None of the predictors were significantly related to Y-BOCS levels at 12-month follow-up, but positive alliance showed a trend to significance.
authors.affiliation: NTNU-Dragvoll, 7491 Trondheim, Norway. patrickv@svt.ntnu.no
authors.forename: Patrick A
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Vogel
authors.forename: Bjarne
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Hansen
authors.forename: Tore C
authors.initials: TC
authors.lastname: Stiles
authors.forename: K Gunnar
authors.initials: KG
authors.lastname: Götestam
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000553:Ambulatory Care; D015928:Cognitive Behavioral Therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009042:Motivation; D009771:Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D010358:Patient Participation / Q000523:psychology*; D010555:Personality Inventory; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D011379:Prognosis; D012044:Regression Analysis; D012718:Set, Psychology; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D016896:Treatment Outcome