Hi! My name is Oskar Flygare and I’m the latest addition to the group of PhD students at Rücklab. I have been working in the group for a year and am now a registered doctoral student with Christian Rück as main supervisor. Co-supervisors are David Mataix-Cols and Erik Andersson.
The focus of my PhD thesis is the psychological treatment of OCD
Lina Lundström and I are the project managers of a randomised controlled trial that compares two types of internet-delivered cognitive behavioural therapy (ICBT) with face-to-face cognitive behavioural therapy for adults with OCD. The three treatments are:
- Individual face-to-face CBT
- Therapist-guided ICBT
- Self-guided ICBT
120 individuals will be randomised to receive one of the treatments, i.e. 40 patients in each treatment arm. Treatment lasts for 14 weeks. We are recruiting participants and you can register here.
Our main goal is to evaluate the treatments on how well they provide symptom relief. In addition to this, I will also perform cost-effectiveness analyses on the three treatments, i.e. evaluate the benefits in relation to costs. My study plan also contains research on predictors and moderators of treatment outcome.
When I’m not doing a deep-dive in obscure research, I enjoy playing and listening to music. I have been playing the saxophone for 15 years and wanted to become a professional musician when I was a teenager. I came to my senses after three years of intense music studies in high school and switched to psychology.
Please get in touch if you want to exchange ideas or talk about interesting research! I am always curious, sometimes thoughtful and never indifferent.
Rücklab - Psychiatry research at Karolinska Institutet 