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Project EMPOWER-OCD

NCT07158801 · Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING · Phase: PHASE1 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 110

Last updated 2025-09-11

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Summary

This research study aims to adapt and evaluate the acceptability and effectiveness of Project EMPOWER-OCD for socioeconomically diverse caregivers of patients with OCD. Designed to reduce obstacles (e.g. months long time commitment, high cost, transportation) to treatment that caregivers may be particularly prone to, project EMPOWER-OCD will provide targeted intervention of accommodation - a well-established, potentially modifiable risk factor for child anxiety, OCD, and its related disorders - in a single, self-guided session via an online format.

Conditions

  • Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Project EMPOWER-OCD

Project EMPOWER-OCD is a web-based intervention for caregivers that takes about 20-25 minutes to complete that reduces accommodation. The program is drawing from an empirically supported intervention, Project EMPOWER, and will be adapted for the OCD population pending stakeholder input during phase 1 and include 5 elements: (1) an introduction to the program's rationale; (2) psychoeducation around OCD-driven avoidance, along with how caregiver accommodation can inadvertently maintain these avoidance patterns; (3) information on how caregivers can better identify patterns of avoidance, validate, and encourage approach behaviors instead; (4) creation of an "action plan" to promote approach behavior and reducing avoidance; (5) a vignette exercise in which caregivers read about another case and provide possible solutions based on what they learned. Resources for finding mental health treatment for OCD are presented at the end.

BEHAVIORAL

Project CARE

To evaluate the effects of Project EMPOWER-OCD, we will compare it to an active psychoeducation-based SSI that provides general information on caregiving and caregiver mental health. The intervention includes 5 elements that mirror Project EMPOWER: (1) introduction to the rationale for the program; (2) introduce the concept of caregiving across relationships and situations; (3) present broad information on typical development processes; (4) helping caregivers identify their own role and reflect on how caregiving looks like in their life (5) vignette exercise where caregivers identify caregiving roles, prompting reflection on roles. This active comparator intentionally does not include any psychoeducational components explicitly designed to reduce accommodation of anxiety, OCD, and its related disorders.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Boston University Charles River Campus

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
SEQUENTIAL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2025-10-01
Primary Completion
2026-08-31
Completion
2027-08-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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