
OCD Action believes that research plays a vital role in improving the quality of treatment available for people with OCD.
For nearly two decades, the Charity has been facilitating research by bringing together credible researchers and volunteers willing to participate in trials and studies.
The calls for participants listed below are from individuals and institutions that are known to us and where, if needed, ethical approval has been granted. They are independent from the Charity and if you have any questions about them, please contact the relevant researcher.
If you are a student or professional who is undertaking a research project, and you would like us to list your project, please email research@ocdaction.org.uk to discuss your request.
Current Calls for Participants
- Children with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD): Identifying Acceptable Support Strategies for Parents
- How well do phycological recourses predict intrusive thoughts
- Exploring the usefulness of technology to help individuals with OCD
- Single Session Behavioural Activation Training Programme online for OCD
- Unacceptable/Taboo Thoughts in Youth OCD
- Would you like to take part in an online workshop to help develop better support for parents of children with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)?
- Do you want to help design a new online platform to support parents/carers of children with OCD?
- Have you say in OCD research
- Parenting with Anxiety: Helping anxious parents raise confident children
- Children with OCD: Identifying Acceptable Support Strategies for Parents
- Understanding the experience of individuals with eating disorders and obsessive- compulsive disorder comorbidity
- Potential new treatment for OCD
- Investigating the association between complex posttraumatic stress disorder and hoarding disorder
- An exploration into the experiences of individuals living with P-OCD who have been subject to safeguarding and/or forensic referrals
- OCD & Mental Health Apps: The perspectives of people with OCD on using mobile applications to support their mental health
- Is inflexibility in thinking a determinant for adhering to mental health therapies?
- Investigating the effectiveness of emotion-skills training
- Are you aged 16-22 and diagnosed with OCD?
- Do you suffer from OCD
- Help shape the future of digital CBT for OCD
- Understanding Eating in OCD
- If you suffer from Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and have had symptoms and/or a diagnosis for more than a year, you are invited to join a new OCD clinical trial!
- Creating a resource for school staff to learnt more about OCD in young people
- Exploring the experiences of adults with mental contamination-based OCD
- Daily predictors of distressing infection fears
- I’m a little bit OCD”: the effect of film and TV portrayals of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) on the self-esteem of people living with the disorder
- Volunteers aged 18-55 years needed to help us understand OCD therapy
- Participants needed for a study about taking part in suicide-focused research in pregnancy and the year after birth
- Understanding parental experiences of early obsessive-compulsive signs emerging at 4-10 years
- Examining the Relationship Between Sensory Sensitivity and Autistic and OCD Traits
- OCD MRI study for 16-19 year olds
- Experiences of people with OCD who have undergone therapy from unqualified ‘coaches’
- How habits become compulsions? Exploring the neural basis of habit perseveration in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
- OCD Misconceptions and challenges
- Understanding the clinician and service user experience of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and the factors which influence treatment outcomes: a qualitative study
- Exploring the experience of mental contamination OCD and betrayal
- An investigation of fear of losing control and anxiety
- Are you living with someone with Body Dysmorphic Disorder or appearance anxiety?
- Are you a systemiser?
- Take part in maternal Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) research at the University of Oxford
- Assessing the association between self-rated and objective neurocognitive tests assessments of compulsivity and impulsivity in people diagnosed with OCD
- You are invited to take part in a research project to develop a digital referral tool for CAMHS
- OCD and Dependency/Incompetence Schema
- Comparing imaginal exposure with imagery rescripting in people with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD): a single case experimental design
- A qualitative study into the lived experience of individuals with Body Dysmorphic Disorder, with a focus on the Covid Pandemic, using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis