Predictors of response to exposure and response prevention-based cognitive behavioral therapy for obsessive-compulsive disorder

Table 2 Correlations between ERP-based CBT response change and other clinical indices in OCD

	N	r	p-value
Age	42	0.12	0.455
Sex^a	42	0.37^*	0.017
Autism-Spectrum Questionnaire (AQ)
Social skill	40	−0.08	0.621
Attention switching	40	−0.35^*	0.029
Attention to detail	40	0.07	0.674
Communication	40	−0.35^*	0.026
Imagination	40	−0.09	0.600
Total	40	−0.25	0.120
Y-BOCS (pre) Total	42	0.18	0.249
Obsessive Compulsive Inventory (OCI)
Washing	39	0.18	0.264
Checking	39	−0.23	0.161
Doubting	39	−0.17	0.295
Ordering	39	0.00	0.994
Obsessions	39	−0.10	0.529
Hoarding	39	−0.22	0.186
Neutralizing	39	−0.06	0.726
Total	40	−0.09	0.562
PHQ-9	41	−0.23-0.026	0.142
GAD-7	40	−0.188	0.246
Full-scale intelligence quotient (FSIQ)	42	0.08	0.621
WAIS-III Subtests
Vocabulary	42	0.17	0.269
Similarities	42	0.00	0.981
Information	42	−0.01	0.955
Comprehension	42	0.05	0.740
Arithmetic	42	0.13	0.431
Digit Span	42	0.07	0.699
Letter Number Sequencing	42	0.42^**	0.005
Visual Puzzles	42	−0.14	0.365
Picture Completion	42	−0.10	0.539
Block Design	42	0.15	0.333
Matrix Reasoning	42	−0.13	0.418
Digit Symbol Coding	42	0.21	0.178
Symbol Search	42	0.04	0.792

*p < 0.01, **p < 0.05
Abbreviations: OCD obsessive-compulsive disorder, Y-BOCS Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale, PHQ-9 Patient Health Questionnaire-9, GAD-7 Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7
^aFemale = 1. Male = 0

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