NCT04182061

Internet Transdiagnostic-CBT for Anxiety and Depression in Adolescents

Internet-Delivered Transdiagnostic CBT Program to Improve Access for Treatment of Anxiety and Depression in Adolescents: A Randomized Controlled Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 80 (actual)
• Sponsor: Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 12 Years – 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study represents the first research program to assess the efficacy of transdiagnostic cognitive behavior therapy (T-CBT) delivered via internet for anxiety and depression in adolescents. The primary aim of the study was to implement the program AMTE (Aprende a Manejar tus Emociones \[Learn to Manage Your Emotions\]), an internet delivered T-CBT protocol designed to target both anxiety and depression symptoms and disorders (major depression disorder, dysthymic disorder, panic disorder, agoraphobia, generalized anxiety disorder, and social anxiety disorder) in adolescents, and to establish its preliminary efficacy on anxiety and depressive symptomatology. A secondary objective is to demonstrate its potential effect regarding: (a) transdiagnostic measures associated with etiology of emotional disorders including negative affect, anxiety sensitivity, and emotional avoidance, and (b) positive factors including satisfaction with life and positive affect. It is expected that the T-CBT condition will be more effective than the waitlist (WL) control group on the primary (anxiety and depression) and secondary (transdiagnostic and positive factors) outcome measures.

Conditions

• Anxiety Disorder
• Depressive Disorder
• Emotional Disorder

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	The AMTE protocol	The AMTE program is an adaptation of the Unified Protocol for the Transdiagnostic Treatment of Emotional Disorders in Adolescents (UP-A; Ehrenreich-May et al., 2018) to be applied as an internet-based protocol. Like the UP-A, the program AMTE implements a set of core principles to address common factors underling youth anxiety and depressive symptoms. It includes the following 10 modules: (1) Understanding emotional problems and disorders, (2) Getting to know your emotions and behaviors, (3) Enjoy your positive activities, (4) Mindful emotion awareness, (5) Being flexible in your thinking, (6) Confronting physical sensations, (7) Situational emotion exposure, (8) How to regulate the emotional avoidance, (9) Respiratory relaxation training, and (10) Relapse prevention.

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-11-15
• Primary completion: 2023-06-30
• Completion: 2023-09-30
• First posted: 2019-12-02
• Last updated: 2024-01-09

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Spain