Published: an exploratory study of GGRO for challenging OCD-related beliefs

Our first paper on GGRO was published in the Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry. In this exploratory open trial, 20 university students completed 15 days of brief daily training with the app. Their OCD-related beliefs and OCD symptoms, including relationship obsessions, decreased, while depression symptoms did not change. The study had no control group and did not include people with a clinical diagnosis, so it shows promise rather than proven effectiveness.

Roncero, M., Belloch, A., & Doron, G. (2018). A novel approach to challenging OCD related beliefs using a mobile-app: An exploratory study. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 59, 157–160. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbtep.2018.01.008

A pre-print version of the paper is available at this link. A later randomized trial is described in this post.