Cost-effectiveness of therapist-guided internet-delivered cognitive behaviour therapy for paediatric obsessive-compulsive disorder: results from a randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To evaluate the cost-effectiveness of a therapist-guided internet-delivered cognitive behaviour therapy (ICBT) intervention for adolescents with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) compared with untreated patients on a waitlist.

Design

Single-blinded randomised controlled trial.

Setting

A research clinic within the regular child and adolescent mental health service in Stockholm, Sweden.

Participants

Sixty-seven adolescents (12-17 years) with a Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders Fifth Edition diagnosis of OCD.

Interventions

Either a 12-week, therapist-guided ICBT intervention or a wait list condition of equal duration.

Primary outcome measures

Cost data were collected at baseline and after treatment, including healthca

SUBMITTER: Lenhard F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5729979 | biostudies-literature | 2017 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature