The DOI matches its Crossref record; 55 of the 55 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.
Evaluation of an inference-based approach to treating obsessive–compulsive disorder
Abstract
This study evaluated an inference-based approach (IBA) to the treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) by comparing its efficacy with a treatment based on the cognitive appraisal model (CAM) and exposure and response prevention (ERP). IBA considers initial intrusions in OCD (e.g. "Maybe the door is open", "My hands could be dirty") as idiosyncratic inferences about possible states of affairs arrived at through inductive reasoning. In IBA such primary inferences represent the starting point of obsessional doubt, and the reasoning maintaining the doubt forms the focus for therapy. This is unlike CAM, which regards appraisals of intrusions as the maintaining factors in OCD. Fifty-four OCD participants, of whom 44 completed, were randomly allocated to CAM, ERP or IBA. After 20 weeks of treatment all groups showed a significant reduction in scores on the Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale (Y-BOCS) and the Padua Inventory. Participants with high levels of obsessional conviction showed greater benefit from IBA than CAM. Appraisals of intrusions changed in all treatment conditions. Strength of primary inference was not correlated with symptom measures except in the case of strong obsessional conviction. Strength of primary inference correlated significantly with the Y-BOCS insight item. Treatment matching for high and low conviction levels to IBA and CAM, respectively, may optimize therapy outcome.
Overview
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
Claims other papers make about this one
Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?
In the citing paper
“the majority of the trials comparing CBT to ERP have found no differences between these two modalities in terms of symptom reduction (Emmelkamp & Beens, 1991; O’Connor et al., 2005; Vogel et al., 2004; Whittal et al., 2005).”
From An update on the efficacy of psychological treatments for obsessive-compulsive disorder in adults (2013) · cites this paper as O’Connor et al., 2005
Citations
Cites
An inventory for measuring clinical anxiety: Psychometric properties.
Beck, A. T., Epstein, N., Brown, G., & Steer, R. A. (1988) · Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology · doi:10.1037/0022-006x.56.6.893 · Cited by 14,407
Journal of Clinical Psychiatry
(2018) · Journal of Clinical Psychiatry · doi:10.5505/kpd · Cited by 13,703
Cognitive Therapy for Depression
(2012) · PsycEXTRA Dataset · doi:10.1037/e675542012-001 · Cited by 9,678
The Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale: I. Development, Use, and Reliability
Goodman, W. K. (1989) · Archives of General Psychiatry · doi:10.1001/archpsyc.1989.01810110048007 · Cited by 7,712
Cognitive Therapy in Depression
Kovács, M. (1980) · Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis · doi:10.1521/jaap.1.1980.8.1.127 · Cited by 3,422
Structured clinical interview for DSM-IV axis I disorders : SCID-I : clinical version : scoresheet
First, M. B., Spitzer, R. L., Gibbon, M., & Williams, J. B. W. (1997) · American Psychiatric Press eBooks · Cited by 3,101
The Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale: II. Validity
Goodman, W. K. (1989) · Archives of General Psychiatry · doi:10.1001/archpsyc.1989.01810110054008 · Cited by 2,799
The Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale: measures of internal consistency.
Kim, S.-W., Dysken, M., Pheley, A., & Hoover, K. M. (1994) · Psychiatry Research · doi:10.1016/0165-1781(94)90039-6 · Cited by 2,333
Cognitive assessment of obsessive-compulsive disorder
(1997) · Behaviour Research and Therapy · doi:10.1016/s0005-7967(97)00017-x · Cited by 963
Obsessions and compulsions: The Padua inventory
Sanavio, E. (1988) · Behaviour Research and Therapy · doi:10.1016/0005-7967(88)90116-7 · Cited by 926
Research works printed but not linked: 12
- Beck A. T., 1979, Cognitive Therapy of Depression.
- Bouman T. K., 2002, Cognitive behavioural group treatment for body dysmorphic disorder. Paper presented at the 32nd Congress of the European Association of Behavioural and Cognitive Therapies.
- Brown T. A., 1994, Anxiety Disorders Interview Schedule for DSM‐IV.
- Cohen J., 1988, Statistical Power Analysis for the Behavioral Sciences (2nd edn).
- Freeston M. H., 1997, Self‐monitoring for OCD studies: Instructional guide for the therapists. Unpublished paper, available from the Centre de recherche Fernand‐Seguin, 7331 Hochelaga St., Montréal, Québec, H1N 3V2.
- 10.1037/0022-006X.62.4.801 · DOI
- Janet P., 1903, Les obsessions et la psychasthénie (vols 1 & 3, 2nd edn).
- Jaspers K., 1963, General Psychopathology (translated by J. Hoenig & M. W. Hamilton).
- Keijsers G., 1995, Motivation and experience toward treatment questionnaire. Unpublished scale. University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
- Pélissier M. C., 2002, The role of inductive reasoning in obsessional doubt. Paper presented at the 32nd EABCT Congress of the European Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Therapies. Maastricht, The Netherlands.
- Rachman S., 1983, Failures in Behavior Therapy.
- Spitzer R. L., 1991, Manual for the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM‐III‐R with psychotic screen.
Cited by
Sorted by citations
Items 101–109 of 109
Sonneveldt, I. J., Wolf, N., van Balkom, A. J. L. M., van Enckevort, L., van Genugten, C., Kampman, M., van Oppen, P., van Straten, A., Toffolo, M. B. J., & Visser, H. A. D. (2025) · Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders · doi:10.1016/j.jocrd.2025.100936
An Examination of the Impact of Hoarding Parent-Adult Child Relationships and Family Functioning
Park, J. M. (2014) · Digital Commons - University of South Florida (University of South Florida)
Bourguignon, L., Leclerc, J. B., & Aardema, F. (2026) · Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy · doi:10.1002/cpp.70231
Self-citationVriend, C., Broekhuizen, A., Wolf, N., van Oppen, P., van den Heuvel, O. A., & Visser, H. A. D. (2026) · medRxiv · doi:10.64898/2026.02.10.26345974
Ouellet‐Courtois, C., Bouchard, S., Giguère, C., Koszycki, D., Lavoie, M. E., & Aardema, F. (2026) · Behaviour Research and Therapy · doi:10.1016/j.brat.2026.105022
Self-citationThe anxious inquirer : emotions and epistemic uncertainty
Vazard, J. (2021) · theses.fr (ABES) · doi:10.70675/a4461588zdb39z4eafza9efz887c07dad202
Wang, Y., Miguel, C., Ciharova, M., Amarnath, A., Lin, J., Zhao, R., Toffolo, M. B. J., Struijs, S., de Wit, L. D., & Cuijpers, P. (2026) · The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science · doi:10.1192/bjp.2026.10651
Vriend, C., Broekhuizen, A., Wolf, N., van Oppen, P., van den Heuvel, O. A., & Visser, H. A. D. (2026) · Journal of Affective Disorders · doi:10.1016/j.jad.2026.122145
Psychotherapy and behavioral interventions
Wagner, K., Love, C., Zhou, J., Wiese, A. D., Onyeka, O. “., Goodman, W. K., & Storch, E. A. (2026) · Elsevier eBooks · doi:10.1016/b978-0-443-27446-6.00009-1
Metadata
- Authors
- O'Connor, K. P., Aardema, F., Bouthillier, D., Fournier, S., Guay, S., Robillard, S., Pélissier, M. C., Landry, P., Todorov, C., Tremblay, M., & Pitre, D.
- Affiliations
- Hôpital du Sacré-Cœur de Montréal (CA)
- Institut universitaire en santé mentale de Montréal (CA)
- Hôpital Notre-Dame (CA)
- ORCID
- Venue
- Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2005-09-05
- Volume
- 34
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 148-163
- ISSN
- 1650-6073 (ISSN-L)
- 1651-2316
- OpenAlex
- W1980764277
- Cited by
- 109
- References
- 55
- Citations by year
- 2026: 6 · 2025: 3 · 2024: 7 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 8 · 2020: 6 · 2019: 3 · 2018: 6 · 2017: 5 · 2016: 5 · 2015: 6 · 2014: 9 · 2013: 5 · 2012: 4
- FWCI
- 5.01
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Yale University
- Fonds de recherche du Québec
- Fonds de Recherche du Québec - Santé
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research
- Keywords
- obsessive-compulsive disorder, exposure and response prevention, intrusive thoughts, inductive reasoning, treatment matching, treatment outcomes
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Analysis of Variance, Desensitization, Psychologic, Female, Follow-Up Studies, Humans, Male, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Thinking, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review