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
- Median nerve stimulation (MNS) effects on ADHD, OCD and GAD
- Understanding the impact of life experiences across mental health difficulties, OCD, PTSD and anxiety
- iNVESTIGATING RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN THINKING PATTERNS AND OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER
- 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
- 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
- Exploring the experiences of adults with mental contamination-based OCD
- 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
- 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?
- Evaluating the usability and acceptability of a program developed to prevent relapse in OCD