The effectiveness of behavioral-emotional spiritual therapy on scrupulosity, and rumination in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder

The Purpose of the present study was to investigate the effectiveness of integrated behavioral -emotional spiritual therapy on scrupulosity and rumination in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder. The current research method was a randomized trial with pre-test, post-test and follow-up. In this research, 40 patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder, who were randomly divided into two groups of 20 people, experimental and control. The experimental group received behavioral emotional-spiritual therapy as a group in 15 ninety-minute sessions, and the control group did not receive any intervention. The data collection tools included a semi-structured interview based on DSM5 (SCID-I), the Obsessive compulsive Questionnaire, the scrupulosity Questionnaire and the Rumination Questionnaire, which the participants answered at the beginning and end of the treatment and two months after the end of the treatment. The data was analyzed using the analysis of covariance test in SPSS-22 software. The findings of the research showed that behavioral emotional-spiritual therapy significantly reduces scrupulosity and rumination in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (P<0.001) and the gains of the treatment are maintained two months after the end of the treatment. According to the findings of the research, behavioral-emotional spiritual therapy can be used to reduce rumination and scrupulosity, and therapists can use this method to reduce rumination and scrupulosity of people with obsessive-compulsive disorder.