NCT01513915

A Parent-only Group Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Children With Anxiety Disorders: a Control Group Study

A Parent-only Group Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Children With Anxiety Disorders: a Control Waiting List Group Study

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 40 (actual)
• Sponsor: Tehran University of Medical Sciences · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 6 Years – 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The fact that Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a well known efficacious intervention for children with anxiety disorders (AD) is undeniable. However, most children with AD have limited access to CBT. There is some controversial evidence on group CBT in AD involving families in treatment of their children and a published article on efficacy of a parent only group CBT for these children. Considering these data, the investigators hypothesized that teaching anxiety-fighting skills to parents of children with AD would diminish anxiety symptoms of both parents and children and improve family relational functioning.

Detailed description

All children and their parents were interviewed using K-SADS-PL-Persian Version, a semi-structured diagnostic interview to confirm the diagnoses and assess possible comorbidities. All diagnostic assessments were conducted by a fellowship of child and adolescent psychiatry. Following assessment, once the participants reached twenty members, they were invited to complete child and parent self-report measures. The level of child functioning and family relationship functioning were also evaluated. Then they were randomly allocated to either parent training (N=20) or a 6 week wait-list (N=22) groups. During 2 weeks after treatment the assessments were repeated and satisfaction ratings were collected for the intervention group.

Conditions

• Anxiety Disorders

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Group cognitive behavioral intervention	A Group cognitive behavioral intervention \_based on parent training component of FRIENDS program\_ was performed.The program protocol was translated to Persian, using the back translation method.The intervention was delivered in 6 two-hour weekly sessions. Two intervention groups ran, each group included 10 parents.The therapy was provided by an attending board certified child and adolescent psychiatrist and co lead by a fellow of child and adolescent psychiatry who distributed psychometric procedures and completed treatment adherence ratings.

Timeline

• Start date: 2008-07-01
• Primary completion: 2009-05-01
• Completion: 2009-07-01
• First posted: 2012-01-20
• Last updated: 2016-04-26

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Iran