Pilot Trial of Cognitive and Behavioral Treatment of Compulsive Hoarding Compared to Wait List Control

Completed · Phase 1

Conditions studied: Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

In brief

This study developed and tested a specialized cognitive and behavioral treatment for the symptoms of hoarding disorder, including excessive acquiring, difficulty discarding items, and extensive clutter in the home.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00073346

Run by

Boston University Charles River Campus

People needed

52

Starts

2003-09-01

Expected to finish

2008-07-09

Last updated by the study team

2020-01-21

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Display at least moderately severe hoarding symptoms
• Must live within 45 minutes of Boston, MA or Hartford, CT

You may not qualify if…

• Ten or more sessions of cognitive behavior therapy for hoarding
• Concurrent psychotherapy or medications
• Suicidal, psychotic, or other psychiatric symptoms requiring hospitalization
• Compulsive buying symptoms that are part of a manic phase of bipolar disorder
• Mental retardation, dementia, brain damage, or other cognitive dysfunction that would interfere with the study

Where it is running

• Hartford Hospital, Institute of Living — Hartford, Connecticut, United States
• BostonUCRC — Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Full record on ClinicalTrials.gov

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