Social anxiety
Conditions
Interventions
All participants will follow all 5 phases of the study design: Baseline,
Standard Treatment, VRET, Exposure in vivo and Follow-up. The VRET is the
intervention of interest and trends of symptoms wil
Sponsors
Universiteit van Tilburg
Eligibility
Age
12 Years to 17 Years
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: 1. Aged 12 up to and including 16 years 2. Currently in high school 3. Experiencing social anxiety in the school setting 4. Able to understand, read, write and communicate sufficiently in the Dutch language
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: 1. Having epilepsy 2. The child has a severe physical impairment, such as deafness or blindness. 3. An IQ
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Participants will complete daily dairies with 3 to 6 idiographic questions throughout all phases of the treatment. These will consist of the top problems and goals of the participant, and will be focused on the 1) anxiety feelings/emotion, 2) cognitions or negative expectations and 3) avoidance behavior or safety behavior. Parents will also rate the behaviors of the adolescents in a daily dairy. As these measures are idiographic, it will depend per participants how the questions are asked, and which questions will be included. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| To explore participants' experiences, an interview will be conducted with all participants and parents at the end of the study to identify how they experienced VRET, what could be improved and what was already good. This interview will be semi-structured and conducted by the researchers. | — |
Countries
Netherlands
Outcome results
None listed