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 do new fathers experience intrusive thoughts?
- Exploring carers’ experiences of supporting a family member with mental health difficulties during the pandemic
- 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)?
- Have you ever been diagnosed with Body Dysmorphic Disorder?
- Parenting with Anxiety: Helping anxious parents raise confident children
- Children with OCD: Identifying Acceptable Support Strategies for Parents
- Research participants needed
- Potential new treatment for OCD
- Median nerve stimulation (MNS) effects on ADHD, OCD and GAD
- Comparing features of autism, gender dysphoria and OCD between different diagnostic groups
- OCD & Mental Health Apps: The perspectives of people with OCD on using mobile applications to support their mental health
- An online study investigating the role of mental imagery in worries about health
- Investigating the effectiveness of emotion-skills training
- Are you aged 16-22 and diagnosed with OCD?
- Do you suffer from OCD
- Participants Needed for Research on OCD in Older Adults
- 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!
- How habits become compulsions? Exploring habit perseveration in OCD
- Call for Participants who’ve Experienced ERP in Therapy – Focus Group
- Daily predictors of distressing infection fears
- Volunteers aged 18-55 years needed to help us understand obsessions in OCD
- 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
- Do you have OCD?
- 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
- Understanding women’s experiences of phobias of insects and other bugs
- Exploring the experience of mental contamination OCD and betrayal
- Beliefs about possessions
- Are you living with someone with Body Dysmorphic Disorder or appearance anxiety?
- Are you a systemiser?
- Holding on to Support. Do you offer support to someone with OCD or hoarding difficulties?
- Evaluating the usability and acceptability of a program developed to prevent relapse in OCD