Treatment of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder in Children

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2009-11-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

This study will determine whether cognitive behavioral therapy delivered by either psychologists or psychiatrists can improve the effectiveness of serotonin reuptake inhibitor treatment in children with obsessive compulsive disorder.

• Phase: Phase 3
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Duke University
• Collaborator: National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
• Treatments: Citalopram; Clomipramine; Fluoxetine; Fluvoxamine; Paroxetine; Serotonin; Serotonin Uptake Inhibitors; Sertraline; Venlafaxine Hydrochloride

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• DSM-IV Diagnosis of obsessive compulsive disorder

• CYBOCS total score greater than 16

Exclusion Criteria:

• Other primary or co-primary psychiatric disorder

• Pervasive developmental disorder or disorders, including Asperger's Syndrome

• Thought disorder

• Prior failed trial of cognitive-behavioral therapy

• Has pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcus (PANDAS) or maintenance antibiotic for obsessive-compulsive disorder

• Mental retardation

• Pregnancy