A Web-based Single Session Intervention to Reduce Caregiver Distress and Accommodation in Socioeconomically Diverse Caregivers of OCD Patients
This research study aims to adapt and evaluate the acceptability and effectiveness of Project EMPOWER-OCD for socioeconomically diverse caregivers of patients with OCD. Designed to reduce obstacles (e.g. months long time commitment, high cost, transportation) to treatment that caregivers may be particularly prone to, project EMPOWER-OCD will provide targeted intervention of accommodation - a well-established, potentially modifiable risk factor for child anxiety, OCD, and its related disorders - in a single, self-guided session via an online format.
• be a caregiver for at least one individual with OCD, defined as living in the same household and providing daily care
• be 18 years old or older
• the individual they are caring for have clinically significant OCD symptoms, indicated by a score a 16 or above on the self-reported Children's Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale - Parent Report (CY-BOCS-PR)
• speak, read, and write English
• not be in concurrent family-based CBT treatment for the patient's OCD.