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Decision-making Impairments in OCD: An Integrated Behavioral Economics Model

NCT03420495 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 69

Last updated 2020-03-18

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Summary

The investigators are examining whether conditions of ambiguity during decision-making may prime intolerance of uncertainty beliefs (i.e., difficulties coping with ambiguity, unpredictability, and the future) and lead to impaired performance when individuals with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) are making uncertain decisions compared to non-psychiatric controls.

Conditions

  • Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Decision-Making Tasks

All participants will receive a structured diagnostic assessment and complete self-report questionnaires about cognitive factors, decision-making styles, and anxiety/mood symptoms. They then will be guided through three judgment and decision-making (JDM) paradigms (the Risk and Ambiguity Task, the Beads Task, and the Balloon Analogue Risk Task), each of which each has been modified to differ by whether the likelihood of potential adverse outcomes is provided (or whether it remains ambiguous).

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Obsessive Compulsive Foundation

    collaborator OTHER

  • Massachusetts General Hospital

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Ryan J Jacoby, Ph.D. · Massachusetts General Hospital

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
DIAGNOSTIC
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2018-05-03
Primary Completion
2019-11-15
Completion
2019-11-15

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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