Designing unified trans‑diagnostic interventions and their efficacy on the common mechanisms of the comorbid obsessive personality disorder with anxiety, depression, and obsessive‑compulsive disorder: A protocol study

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1 Professor, Department of Psychology, Ahvaz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahvaz, Iran,

2 Assistant, Department of Psychology, Ahvaz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahvaz, Iran

3 Associate, Department of Psychology, Ahvaz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahvaz, Iran

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چکیده

BACKGROUND: The immense comorbidity among disorders could be ascribed to commontrans‑diagnostic processes. The term trans‑diagnostic has been of interest in both pathologyand psychology. Trans‑diagnostic treatments were created as opposed to treatments based onsingle‑diagnosis treatments. It addresses the common underlying mechanisms in a range of comorbiddisorders. Trans‑diagnostic treatment is one of the new psychological treatments, and its efficacy hasbeen proven on many psychological variables. The main focus of the current study is on designingunified trans‑diagnostic interventions and their efficacy on the shared mechanisms of comorbidobsessive personality disorder with anxiety, depression, and obsessive‑compulsive disorder.MATERIALS AND METHODS: the sequential transformative strategy has two stages; qualitativeand quantitative. In The first and qualitative section of the research, explanatory research will becarried out to investigate the trans‑diagnostic intervention using a systematic review. To validatethe trans‑diagnostic intervention, and simultaneously with the trans‑diagnostic intervention, aquestionnaire has been prepared and given to 10 psychology experts and professionals in thetreatment field concerning content validity by evaluators.Quasi‑experimental research will be assessed with a pre‑test, post‑test, and a two‑month follow‑upafter confirming the validity and reliability of the intervention in the quantitative section.CONCLUSION: Designing unified trans‑diagnosis interventions and their efficacy on the commonmechanisms of comorbid obsessive personality disorder with anxiety, depression, and obsessive‑compulsivedisorder is an effective treatment method for helping those suffering from a personality disorder. Clinicalpsychologists, psychology experts, psychiatrists, and mental health experts are all the immediatebeneficiaries of this study. Moreover, clients could benefit from this intervention with less money and time.