Beta
318358

Schema Therapy’s Efficacy on Obsessive Symptoms among Patients with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Article

Last updated: 28 Dec 2024

Subjects

-

Tags

-

Abstract

Background: Obsessive- Compulsive Disorder (OCD) global prevalence is 1.8%. Untreated OCD is associated with significant educational, familial, and social dysfunctions and increased risk for other psychological and psychiatric disorders. Sadock BJ, (Sadock V.; 2016. Lack C, Storch E, Keeley M, Geffken G, Ricketts E, Murphy TK et al. 2009). For patients with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)., Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) has been described as the first line of treatment. To improve outcomes new targets of intervention have been suggested (Veale et al., 2015). Aim of study Examine the efficacy of Schema Therapy on obsessive symptoms among patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Research hypothesis: Patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder who attend Schema Therapy sessions exhibit lower level of obsessive symptoms compared to those scored before attending the schema therapy sessions. Setting: The study was conducted in the psychiatric outpatient clinics of the Main University Hospital, which is affiliated to the Faculty of Medicine, Alexandria University. The clinics provide free treatment services for patients suffering from neuro-psychiatric disorders. Sampling: The G*Power Windows. 3.1.9.7 Program was used to estimate the sample size using the following parameters: about 30 outpatients with OCD per 3 months, effect size f = 0.50, α err. prob. =0.01, Power (1-β err. prob.) = 0.99, number of groups=1 and number of measurements= 4. The program revealed a sample size of 10 patients minimum and 12 patients maximum. Results: It can be noticed that the mean score of the severity level of OCD in the study group significantly decreased from 32.38±5.84 at the first measurement before the intervention to 18.07±3.70 after implementing the schema therapy with a statistically significant difference (F=55.04, P=0.000), with effect size of 82.1%. Conclusions: The previous results reveal the efficacy of schema therapy for patients suffering from obsessive compulsive disorder. This intervention helps these patients learn new skills and use more adaptive strategies to deal with early maladaptive schemas, to gain awareness about those early maladaptive schemas and how to control emotions associated with them. Recommendations: Discharge plan for patients with obsessive compulsive disorder should include health teaching about early maladaptive schemas and how to respond to those emotion that are related to each schema as well as connect those early maladaptive schemas to associated symptoms, and consequently foster rehabilitation and adaptation to community.  

DOI

10.21608/asalexu.2023.318358

Keywords

Schema therapy, Obsessive-compulsive disorder

Authors

First Name

Mera

Last Name

Abdelrazek

MiddleName

Naguib

Affiliation

Psychiatric Nursing and Mental Health, Faculty of Nursing, Alexandria University.

Email

-

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Magdala

Last Name

Maximos

MiddleName

Habib

Affiliation

Psychiatric Nursing and Mental Health, Faculty of Nursing, Alexandria University.

Email

-

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Tarek

Last Name

Molokhia

MiddleName

Kamal

Affiliation

Neuropsychiatry Department, Faculty of Medicine, Alexandria University

Email

-

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Tarek

Last Name

El-Saeed

MiddleName

Abd El-Salam

Affiliation

Certified Trainer at the Psychotherapy License Committee at the Ministry of Health

Email

-

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Marwa

Last Name

Ahmed Mousa

MiddleName

Abd El-Gawad

Affiliation

Psychiatric Nursing and Mental Health, Faculty of Nursing, Alexandria University

Email

-

City

-

Orcid

-

Volume

25

Article Issue

3

Related Issue

43600

Issue Date

2023-09-01

Receive Date

2023-09-22

Publish Date

2023-09-01

Page Start

91

Page End

102

Print ISSN

1687-3858

Link

https://asalexu.journals.ekb.eg/article_318358.html

Detail API

https://asalexu.journals.ekb.eg/service?article_code=318358

Order

318,358

Type

Research articles

Type Code

2,129

Publication Type

Journal

Publication Title

Alexandria Scientific Nursing Journal

Publication Link

https://asalexu.journals.ekb.eg/

MainTitle

Schema Therapy’s Efficacy on Obsessive Symptoms among Patients with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Details

Type

Article

Created At

28 Dec 2024