A comparison of the effectiveness of confrontation technique with response inhabitation and flooding technique on ablutomania of patients with O.C.D

Document Type : 78

Abstract

Introduction: This research was carried out with the aim of A comparison of the effectiveness of confrontation technique with response inhabitation and flooding technique on ablutomania of patients with O.C.D.
Material: out of total 120 women referring to the psychiatry and counseling centers of Amol small province hospital, 90  women patients from 20 up to 40 years old having obsession of the kind of ablutomania were chosen on the basis of Yeal-Brown obsessive-compulsive questionnaire and psychiatrist’s diagnosis, Out of  this number 48 were randomly chosen and divided  in three groups including two experimental groups and one control group. Yeal-Brown obsessive-compulsive questionnaire was carried out in the form of pre-test and post-test in each of these groups. Obsessive individuals situated in the experimental group received the flooding technique and confrontation technique with response inhabitation in the form of group each week for one and a half hour. the control group was in the waiting list during the execution of the research.
The obtained data were analyzed by the application of  Bonferoni method and Spss version 16 software for the purpose of descriptive and inferential statistics based on covariance analysis of ANOVA.  The results of the research have shown that there is a difference between the effectiveness of flooding technique and confrontation technique with response inhabitation on the reduction of the severity of the signs of ablutomania in patients having O.C.D. Also the confrontation technique with response inhabitation is more effective on the reduction of the severity of the obsessive signs than the flooding technique.

Keywords

• Obsessive-compulsive disorders
• Confrontation technique with response inhabitation
• Flooding

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