Skin picking treatment with the Rothbaum cognitive behavioral therapy protocol: a randomized clinical trial.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Although behavioral therapies can effectively treat skin picking disorder (SPD), there is no standardized treatment for improving SPD and its comorbidities and there is no group intervention option. This trial aimed to adapt the Rothbaum trichotillomania protocol to SPD (Study 1) and test its efficacy for treating SPD and comorbidities in individual and group formats (Study 2).

Methods

The adapted protocol was applied to 16 SPD patients, who were allocated to group or individual treatment (Study 1). Afterwards, 54 patients were randomly allocated to treatment in an individual (n=27) or group format (n=27) (Study 2). In both studies, assessments of SPD severity, anxiety, depression, clinical status and skin lesion severity were performed at baseline and the endpo

SUBMITTER: Xavier ACM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7524420 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep-Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature