None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
Objective: The current trial examined whether a specific cognitive behavioral treatment package was more efficacious in treating childhood anxiety disorders than a non-specific support package. Method: One-hundred and twelve children (ages 7-16 years) with a principal anxiety disorder were randomly allocated to either a group cognitive behavioral treatment (CBT) program or a control condition (Group Support and Attention; GSA). Results: Overall, results showed that CBT was significantly more efficacious compared to the GSA condition: 68.6% of children in the CBT condition did not meet diagnostic criteria for their principal anxiety diagnosis at 6 month follow-up compared to 45.5% of children in the GSA condition. The results of the child- and parent-completed measures indicated that whereas mothers of CBT children reported significantly greater treatment gains than mothers of GSA children, children reported similar improvements across conditions. Conclusions: Specific delivery of cognitive behavioral skills is more efficacious in the treatment of childhood anxiety than a treatment that includes only non-specific therapy factors.
Interventions
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy [COOL KIDS treatment program (Rapee, Wignall, Hudson and Schniering, 2000)] 10 x 2 hour sessions delivered in group format, once weekly for 10 weeks. Treatment included parents and child. The treatment components included: Psychoeducation, cognitive restructuring, parent management, gradual exposure.
Sponsors
Macquarie University
Study design
Allocation
Randomised controlled trial
Intervention model
Parallel
Primary purpose
Treatment
Masking
Blinded (masking used)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
7 Years to 16 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
principal anxiety disorder
Exclusion criteria
mental retardation, psychoses and concurrent psychological treatment
Outcome results
None listed