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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Depress Anxiety. 2015 Jun 30;32(8):580–593. doi: 10.1002/da.22389

Table 2.

Effect sizes and Outcome Measures for Treatment Efficacy, Treatment Response and Symptom/Diagnostic Remission Across Included Trials

Treatment Efficacy Measure Effect size (Hedges’ g) Treatment Response Measure Relative Risk of Treatment Resposne Symptom /Diagnostic Remission Measure Relative Risk of Symptom/Diagnostic Remission
CBT Trials
Barrett et al. 2004 CYBOCS 2.82 25% CYBOCS Reduction 19.00 ADIS-P 43.00
POTS, 2004a CYBOCS 1.06 25% CYBOCS Reduction 2.50 CYBOCS ≤10 15.00
Bolton & Perrin, 2007 CYBOCS 1.02 25% CYBOCS Reduction 13.00 CYBOCS ≤14 2.50
Freeman et al. 2008 CYBOCS 0.49 CGI-I 1.25 CYBOCS ≤12 2.50
Williams et al. 2010 CYBOCS 1.31 25% CYBOCS Reduction 3.18 CYBOCS ≤14 2.73
Bolton et al. 2011 CYBOCS 1.45 25% CYBOCS Reduction 3.87 ADIS-C/P 7.33
Piacentini et al. 2011 CYBOCS 0.38 CGI-I 2.10 CYBOCS ≤10 2.54
Storch et al. 2011 CYBOCS 1.15 CGI-I 6.09 CYBOCS ≤10 4.22
Lewin et al. 2014 CYBOCS 1.62 CGI-I 9.06 CYBOCS ≤12 17.50
Freeman et al. 2014 CYBOCS 1.18 CGI-I 1.76 CYBOCS ≤14 1.94

SRI Trials
Flament et al. 1985b NIMH-GOCS 0.78 NA --- NA ---
Leonard et al. 1989b NIMH-GOCS 0.78 NA --- NA ---
March et al. 1990c CYBOCS 0.51 NA --- NA ---
DeVeaugh-Geiss et al. 1992 CYBOCS 0.73 CGI-I 3.56 NA ---
Riddle et al. 1992 CYBOCS 0.78 NA --- NA ---
March et al. 1998 CYBOCS 0.62 CGI-I 1.61 NA ---
Geller et al. 2001 CYBOCS 0.44 CGI-I 2.93 40% CYBOCS Reduction 1.97
Riddle et al. 2001 CYBOCS 0.31 CGI-I 1.88 NA ---
Liebowietz et al. 2002 CYBOCS 0.24 CGI-I 1.80 CYBOCS ≤14 1.44
Geller et al. 2004 CYBOCS 0.40 CGI-I 1.38 NA ---
POTS, 2004a CYBOCS 0.44 25% CYBOCS Reduction 2.13 CYBOCS ≤10 11.00
a

placebo group used in both,

b

used a cross-over trial design

NOTE: CY-BOCS = Children’s Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale, NIMH-GOCS = National Institute of Mental Health Global Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Scale, NA = Not Available/Applicable, CGI-I = Clinical Global Impression of Improvement, ADIS-C/P = Anxiety Disorder Interview Schedule-Child and Parent report