NCT04230369

Internet-delivered CBT for Anxiety Related to Asthma

Internet-delivered Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Anxiety Related to Asthma: A Randomized Controlled Trial

• Status: Active Not Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 90 (actual)
• Sponsor: Karolinska Institutet · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This is a randomized controlled trial to investigate efficacy of a internet-delivered CBT for anxiety related to asthma.

Detailed description

Asthma is one of the most common chronic diseases and is often associated with anxiety. In a two prior studies (ClinicalTrials.gov ID: NCT03158194; NCT03486756) a protocol for exposure-based cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) for anxiety related to asthma was developed, and standardised to an internet-delivered format and tested for feasibility and acceptability as an internet-CBT. The aim of the current study is to evaluate the efficacy of exposure-based Internet-CBT for anxiety related to asthma compared to Treatment as Usual (TAU). The plan is to include 90 participants consecutively during 2020.

Conditions

• Asthma
• Anxiety

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Exposure-based Internet-CBT	Internet-CBT for anxiety-related asthma 8 weekly modules of CBT delivered over the internet and targeting enhanced function and decreased symptoms of anxiety. Participants work independently from home with the treatment and receive support from experienced Internet-CBT Psychologists through written messages in the secure platform. All participants in both conditions can use any other available treatment (TAU), but psychological, from pre-assessments to 2 months after treatment completion.
OTHER	Treatment as usual	Patients randomized to treatment as usual will receive the same medical information that participants in the Internet-CBT get, with physiological information about asthma and the importance of medical adherence to achieve well controlled asthma, but without the exposure-based treatment and no therapist support. All participants in both conditions can use any other available treatment (TAU), but psychological, from pre-assessments to 2 months after treatment completion.

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-02-11
• Primary completion: 2024-09-30
• Completion: 2025-09-30
• First posted: 2020-01-18
• Last updated: 2024-06-18

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Sweden