Trial reportDepression and anxiety2026
Assessing the Impact of Metacognitive Therapy on OCD Severity and Beliefs: A Three-Wave Multisite RCT With Panel Mediation Analysis.
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Abstract
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a chronic and disabling condition, and although exposure and response prevention (ERP) is the first-line psychological treatment, many patients decline it, drop out, or retain residual symptoms. According to Wells' metacognitive model, OCD is maintained less by intrusive thoughts themselves than by metacognitive beliefs about the significance, danger, and control of thoughts, which metacognitive therapy (MCT) targets directly. However, individual MCT has been evaluated almost exclusively in high-income Western settings, and whether metacognitive belief change temporally precedes symptom improvement remains untested. This multisite, assessor-blinded randomized controlled trial (RCT) addressed both gaps in Pakistani outpatient services. Seventy-six adults with OCD were randomized to 12 weekly sessions of individual MCT (
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