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

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Conditions studied: Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

In brief

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.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT03420495

Run by

Massachusetts General Hospital

People needed

69

Starts

2018-05-03

Expected to finish

2019-11-15

Last updated by the study team

2020-03-18

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Adults (age 18+)
• Meet DSM-5 criteria for principal OCD (OCD group) or no current DSM-5 diagnosis (NPC group).
• Sufficient fluency of English to understand study procedures and questionnaires
• Ability to provide informed consent.
• Comfortable and capable of using a computer to complete computer-based decision-making tasks.

You may not qualify if…

• Color-blindness (which prevents completion of certain tasks)
• Acute psychosis, bipolar disorder, substance use disorder, or suicidality. All other diagnostic comorbidities will be permitted to foster the accrual of a clinically relevant sample.
• Serious neurological disorder or impairment (e.g., brain damage, blindness), attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), intellectual disability, or autism.

Where it is running

• Massachusetts General Hospital — Boston, Massachusetts, United States

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