Comparing the Effectiveness of Emotional Efficacy Therapy and Exposure and Response Prevention Therapy on Perfectionism in People with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Keywords:
Emotional Efficacy Therapy, Exposure and Response Prevention Therapy, Perfectionism, Obsessive-Compulsive DisorderAbstract
Background and Objective: Obsessive-compulsive disorder is a chronic and debilitating disorder. Therefore, the aim of this study was to comparing the effectiveness of emotional efficacy therapy and exposure and response prevention therapy on perfectionism in people with obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Methods and Materials: The current study was a semi-experimental with a pre-test, post-test and three month follow-up design with a control group. The research statistical population was all people with obsessive-compulsive disorder who referred to counseling centers of Tehran city in 2021 year (about 500 people). The research sample was 51 people who were selected by purposeful sampling method and randomly assigned to three groups. The first and second experimental groups underwent 8 sessions of 60 minutes, respectively by emotional efficacy therapy and exposure and response prevention therapy and the control group remained on the waiting list for therapy. The tools of the current research were the perfectionism inventory (Hill et al., 2004) and the Yale-Brown obsessive-compulsive scale (Goodman et al., 1989). The data of this research were analyzed with the methods of analysis of variance with repeated measures and Bonferroni post hoc test in SPSS-22 software.
Findings: The results showed that both intervention methods of emotional efficacy therapy and exposure and response prevention therapy in compared to the control group led to decrease the perfectionism in people with obsessive-compulsive disorder and the results were maintained in the follow-up stage (P<0.001), but there was no significant difference between the post-test and follow-up stages and between the two intervention methods in reducing their perfectionism (P>0.05).
Conclusion: According to the mentioned results, counselors and therapists can use both methods of emotional efficacy therapy and exposure and response prevention therapy to reduce perfectionism in people with obsessive-compulsive disorder.
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