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
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- How do people who have received Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) as part of treatment for Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) view it?
- Children with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD): Identifying Acceptable Support Strategies for Parents
- Living with OCD: Experiences of everyday language.
- Investigating relationship between thinking patterns and obsessive-compulsive disorder
- Can a personalised nutrition program (ZOE) improve symptoms of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder or Body Dysmorphic Disorder?
- 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
- Potential new treatment for OCD
- Investigating the association between complex posttraumatic stress disorder and hoarding disorder
- Participate in a Research Study on Bowel Control Anxiety or Parcopresis (Shy Bowel Syndrome)
- 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
- Seeking volunteers to participate in an online survey looking at the relationship between complex post-traumatic stress and hoarding disorder
- Help shape the future of digital CBT for OCD
- Understanding Eating in OCD
- Creating a resource for school staff to learn 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 the Lived Experiences of OCD: How Individuals Make Sense of Their Condition and What Shapes It
- 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
- 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
- Are you living with someone with Body Dysmorphic Disorder or appearance anxiety?
- Are you a systemiser?
- How do Therapists Experience Clients with Paedophile-Themed Obsessive- Compulsive Disorder (POCD)?
- 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
- Participants needed!
- Living with OCD? Join our study and help us to understand your experience
- Exploring How People with Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD) Experience Relationships and Rejection from Others
- Understanding OCD Symptoms and Family Factors: A Study of Adults with OCD and their Caregivers
- Are you a parent/carer of a child with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)?
- Exploring Men’s Lived Experiences of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
- Living with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Experiences of everyday language