NCT00938093

Treatment of Late-life Anxiety in Primary Care Settings

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 60 (actual)
• Sponsor: Wake Forest University Health Sciences · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 60 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The research study proposed is designed to examine the outcomes of a cognitive behavioral guided self-care intervention with older adults diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder and recruited from a primary care setting. It is hypothesized that the cognitive behavioral guided self-care intervention will produce greater declines in worry and anxiety than enhanced usual care.

Conditions

• Generalized Anxiety Disorder
• Panic Disorder
• Anxiety Disorder Not Otherwise Specified

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Cognitive behavioral therapy	Participants receive 10 telephone therapy sessions and an accompanying workbook focused on cognitive-behavioral techniques for managing anxiety.
BEHAVIORAL	Enhanced usual care	Participants receive written information about anxiety, referrals for treatment, and an optional letter to their primary care physician.

Timeline

• Start date: 2006-03-01
• Primary completion: 2009-02-01
• Completion: 2009-02-01
• First posted: 2009-07-13
• Last updated: 2018-08-13