None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
This study examines the effectiveness of group CBT in treating SAD and its co-occurring symptoms. and to identify demographic, psychological, and social factors that may moderate the efficacy of group CBT for social anxiety disorder in university students. The hypothesis of the study is stated below: The level of social anxiety and its’ co-morbid symptoms would be reduced in the experimental group after receiving group CBT than a waitlist control group.
Interventions
A quasi-experimental pre-test post-test control group design will be used in the study. In the first phase of the study, using convenience sampling, screening for recruitment of participants based on greater than cut-off scores on the Social Phobia Inventory (SPIN) and informal diagnostic interviews (based on DSM-5 T-R) for social anxiety disorder (SAD) will be conducted, and only those participants will be recruited who met the inclusion and exclusion criteria of the study. The Social Phobia In
A quasi-experimental pre-test post-test control group design will be used in the study. In the first phase of the study, using convenience sampling, screening for recruitment of participants based on greater than cut-off scores on the Social Phobia Inventory (SPIN) and informal diagnostic interviews (based on DSM-5 T-R) for social anxiety disorder (SAD) will be conducted, and only those participants will be recruited who met the inclusion and exclusion criteria of the study. The Social Phobia Inventory is a tool for measuring social anxiety. In the next phase, those who met the eligibility criteria for the study would then be randomly assigned to an experimental and a waitlist control group through the lottery method. The students selected in the experimental group will receive cognitive behavioral group therapy while the other group will be on a waiting list. Cognitive behavioral group therapy follows the treatment manual by Hofmann and Otto in 2018. Each group consists of 20 participants and group CBT will be provided as a 1 / 1.5 hr. weekly session in the University of Haripur counseling center. The total number of sessions will be 12. Group session activities include discussing the treatment model, exposure exercises, brief speeches, and in-vivo exposure tasks. The researcher delivers the intervention under the supervision of a licensed clinical therapist.
Sponsors
Ayla Khan-The University of Haripur
Study design
Allocation
Randomised controlled trial
Intervention model
Other
Primary purpose
Educational / counselling / training
Masking
Open (masking not used)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
15 Years to 40 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
• Male & female • Undergraduate student • Unmarried • Greater than cut-off on the Social Phobia Inventory (19) • Given informed consent
Exclusion criteria
• Transgender/Otherwise • Post-Graduate student • Married/Divorced • Any Physical Disability • Severe Cognitive Impairment • Presence of Psychotic symptoms • If taking treatment for any psychiatric disorder other than Social Anxiety • Substance dependence/Abuse • Non–communicable Diseases
Outcome results
None listed