Clinical Psychologist, Institute of Psychiatry, Madurai Medical College and Government Rajaji Hospital, Madurai-625 020.
Indian J Psychiatry. 1983 Jan;25(1):52-6.
In a Cross over design, the therapeutic value of thought-stopping technique in Obsessive Compulsive behaviour was examined by comparing its effect to that of progressive muscular relaxation. A group of 17 individuals with obsessive compulsive behaviours patterns served as study group. The measure of therapeutic change include frequency of obsession, Taylor's Manifest Anxiety scale, Beck's inventory for Depression. Distress rating and Fear survey schedule. The results showed marked improvement in 11 individuals and minimal improvement in 3 and no change in the remaining 3 individuals. Both relaxation and as thought stopping effected changes in the indices of therapeutic change. However, thought stopping was found to be significantly more effective. The study also discusses some follow-up data as well as the theoretical issues of obsessional behaviour.
在交叉设计中，通过将思想停止技术的治疗价值与渐进性肌肉松弛进行比较，来检查其对强迫症行为的治疗效果。一个由 17 名具有强迫症行为模式的个体组成的小组作为研究小组。治疗变化的衡量标准包括：强迫频率、泰勒的显性焦虑量表、贝克的抑郁清单、痛苦评分和恐惧调查时间表。结果表明，11 人有明显改善，3 人有轻微改善，3 人没有变化。放松和思想停止都对治疗变化的指标产生了影响。然而，思想停止被发现更为有效。该研究还讨论了一些随访数据以及强迫症行为的理论问题。
