Do You Offer Support to Someone with OCD or Hoarding Difficulties?

The Oxford Institute of Clinical Psychology Training and Research is looking for volunteers, aged 30+ years old, to answer a survey about offering support to individuals with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and/or hoarding difficulties. 

The person being offered support does not need to have a formal diagnosis of OCD and/or hoarding difficulties. The person may be accepting the support you are offering or not. 

To take part, you must know the person with OCD and/or hoarding difficulties well, e.g., a family member or friend you have known for a number of years. The person must also be aged 30+ years old. You and the person being offered support must live in the UK. 

Learning more about offering support to these individuals will help mental health services to plan more effective treatments and consider how best to involve those who support them. 

You are invited to participate in an online study. The questions will take about 30 minutes of your time. 

If you are interested and would like more information, please contact James Dennis at the Oxford Institute of Clinical Psychology Training and Research by email: james.dennis@stx.ac.ox.uk. There is no obligation to take part. 

To take part , click the link in the caption: (https://oxicptr.web.ox.ac.uk/help-our-research) 

The barriers to treatment for individuals with obsessive compulsive disorder  (OCD)

Description of study:

My name is Robyn, and I am currently a third year Psychology and Counselling student at the University of Sunderland. This year I need to complete my Research Project, where I have chosen to research the barriers to treatment for individuals with OCD. To be able to do this and gather relevant data, the aimed participants are those participants who have an OCD diagnosis, or who believe they suffer from OCD.

What are the objectives of the study and why?

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a mental health disorder which is mainly characterized by obsessions and/or compulsions. These obsessions and compulsions are often clustered into various groups, depending on the content and behaviours the person experiences. These obsessions and compulsions can have a big impact on an individual’s day today and life.

Different types of pharmacological and psychological treatment, such as Cognitive-behavioural therapy, are available for those with OCD. However, studies report a big delay from the first appearance of symptoms to seeking treatment (the average is of 10 years!). Various possible causes of this delay have been found; these are considered barriers to treatment. Examples of these barriers are “not knowing where to seek help”, feelings of shame and stigma, and problems with booking appointments and getting to appointments.

The present study aims to explore these barriers to treatment. Furthermore, the study will also investigate the relationship between certain types of obsessions/compulsions and barriers to treatment, alongside taking into consideration how demographic details (such as ethnicity, religion, and economic status) also impact the barriers.

Here is an anonymous link to the study

*If you have any further questions or need any more information, please contact Robyn Jones via the following email:Bh55hv@student.sunderland.ac.uk

Thank you!

Oxford Study: Childhood experiences associated with feelings of responsibility in adult OCD.

The OCD Clinical Research Group are conducting a study on common traits in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). It is understood that a high sense of responsibility for ones’ self and for others is common for people living with OCD. This study aims to explore whether certain factors in childhood/adolescence may be related to this increased sense of responsibility. Understanding this would give clues to how we can prevent and treat OCD.

Who can take part?

English-speaking adults over the age of 18 years with access to a computing device.

Do I have to have OCD?

No! We are recruiting both people who live with OCD and people who do not have OCD.

What will it involve?

A brief telephone interview with a clinical researcher (around 15 minutes).

The completion of an online questionnaire (around 15 minutes).

What are the advantages to taking part?

Your input with this project will help improve our understanding of OCD so that we can develop better treatments for others. We unfortunately will not be able to offer reimbursement for taking part in this study.

Who is conducting the research?

This study is being conducted by researchers from the Oxford Institute of Clinical Psychology Training and Research. This study has been reviewed by, and received ethics clearance through, the University of Oxford Central University Research Ethics Committee (Reference number: R74411/RE001).

Learning more about the study and taking part

If you are interested in learning more about the study and taking part, please email Dr Lucas Shelemy at lucas.shelemy@hmc.ox.ac.uk with your name and contact information (email/phone number) and he will get back to you.

Thank you.

Does your child have Obsessive Compulsive Symptoms/Disorder?

The University of Reading are conducting a study to see if supporting parents/carers to apply Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) techniques at home helps to reduce OCD symptoms in children.

This study is relevant to you if:

• Your child is aged 5 to 12 years old
• Your child has OCD or you think your child may have OCD

What will I be asked to do?

• Complete short screening questions
• Attend interviews to see if your child has OCD and some other common difficulties.
• Fill out short weekly questionnaires for 3, 4 or 5 weeks.
• Receive 6 to 8 treatment sessions with a therapist and complete activities at home with your child.
• Attend follow-up interviews to see if your child’s symptoms have reduced.

What will my child be asked to do?

• Your child can attend the interviews with you to help us to understand their experiences of OCD. Your child’s attendance at these interviews is optional.
• Complete activities at home with you.

For more information visit: https://reading.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/ocd

Contact: Chloe Chessell chloe.chessell@berkshire.nhs.uk

Are you living with Social Anxiety Disorder?

Researchers want to hear about your experience during the COVID-19 pandemic.

What’s involved?

– 30-60-minute interview, regarding your experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic

– Interviews will take place via Microsoft Teams (no need to have camera on) or phone – meaning you can take part from the comfort of your own home!

You can volunteer to participate in this study if you:

* Are aged 18 years and above

* Can communicate in English

* Are living with a diagnosis of social anxiety disorder and this was diagnosed before the COVID-19 pandemic

Your participation would be hugely appreciated as it will enable a valuable insight into yours and others experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic.

This insight will enable us to develop recommendations to improve current and future mental health support.

If you are interested in participating, please contact the principal investigator for more information:

catherine.neild@stu.mmu.ac.uk

Do you identify as having  OCD?

Researchers at the University of Oxford looking for volunteers who identify with having OCD. Can you help them?

Sam French and his team are curious to learn more about how memories of difficult interpersonal experiences affect emotions in the here-and-now.

You do not need to live in Oxford to participate in this study, as we will be able to complete questionnaires and a task over the telephone and online.

From this research, they hope to develop a richer understanding of factors that may make someone more vulnerable to developing distress by obsessions and compulsions, with the hope of tailoring and improving treatments.

If this is something that interests you, you are welcome to read their participant information sheet: bit.ly/35BKX82

If, after reading the participant information sheet, you are interested, you may contact the team sam.french@hmc.ox.ac.uk and they can arrange a time to schedule an initial telephone call.

Have you experienced obsessions and /or compulsions?

PARTICIPANTS WANTED FOR RESEARCH STUDY

My name is Orinayo Onabanjo and I am a trainee counselling psychologist at the University of Surrey. As part of my doctoral thesis, I am inviting adults currently experiencing or who have had an experience of obsessions and compulsions to take part in a research project that explores their subjective experiences of obsessions and compulsions.

The aim of the project is to understand your experience of obsessions and compulsions in a holistic way by taking into account your whole life context and interpersonal relationships. This project will not be coming from the common diagnostic perspective of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). This means the focus will not be on the obsessions and compulsions as symptoms of an OCD diagnosis, but as meaningful responses to your unique life experiences.

The aim is to explore your perspective on what your experience of obsessions and compulsions is like in the context of your wider environment and interpersonal relationships.

The research study will involve semi-structured interviews which allow for open ended exploration of your experience. The interview will last between 1 to 1.5 hours and take place in either London or Bath

If you would like to participate in the study, please contact me on the following email: o.disun-odebode@surrey.ac.uk.

Are you a mum with OCD?

Is your child under 18 months old?We want to investigate unique factors that have been suggested by mothers to potentially influence the development of perinatal OCD. Through this research, we hope to raise greater awareness and understanding of perinatal OCD so that those at risk can be identified earlier and be supported more successfully.

My name is Beth and I am a Research Assistant for this unique online study looking at the potential predictors of perinatal OCD. This research is being supported by Nottingham Trent University.

You are eligible to participate in this research if:
• You are a mother
• You have a child under 18 months old
• You have perinatal OCD, extremely anxious thoughts regarding your child OR little/no anxious thinking

If you would like to find out more and take part in this 30-45 minute study, please click the link: https://ntupsychology.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eUONZq1sTx0Un5z

If you take part, you can be entered into a prize draw to win a Debenhams voucher. There are 2 x £50 and 4 x £15 vouchers up for grabs!

If you have any further questions and would like to contact the research team, please contact me on:

Email: bethany.huntington@ntu.ac.uk

Are you a mother with OCD?

Do you have experience of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) which started during pregnancy or shortly after your child was born? If so, we would like to hear about your experiences.

We are conducting some research to explore the experiences of mothers who have experience of maternal OCD. The research is interested in mothers’ personal experiences of living with OCD and their experience of motherhood and parenting in the context of OCD. It does not matter whether you still experience OCD symptoms or you have recovered, whether you have been formally diagnosed with OCD or not, or whether you are currently undergoing treatment, hearing your experiences would be valuable in this research.

Research indicates that pregnancy and motherhood can be a time when mothers experience anxiety and that obsessive-compulsive disorder can develop or worsen around this time. Although research has been conducted into how common OCD is in new mothers and into treatment, little research has explored mothers’ personal experiences. We hope this research will provide insight into the experience of maternal OCD, improve awareness in healthcare professionals and increase support for new mothers with similar experiences.

If you are interested in finding out more, please click this link Maternal OCD Research

Alternatively, you can contact Rebekah directly:
Email: r.chadwick@warwick.ac.uk
Tel: 07817834913

If you contact me, I will discuss the research with you in more detail and ask you a few questions to see if you meet our criteria for participation. I can send you an information sheet and then you can take some time to decide if you would like to take part. If you would like to take part, we will arrange a meeting at a time and place convenient for you. In the meeting, I will ask you to complete a consent form, some questions about yourself, such as your age, and an interview about your experiences. If you contact me, you are not obliged to participate in the research. Furthermore, if we arrange a meeting or you do the interview but later change your mind about taking part, you can withdraw your information from the research.