Personalizing and Optimizing CBT Skills for Anxiety
Ohio State University
Summary
The purposes of this study are: (1) to identify baseline predictors of relative success in cognitive, behavioral, and mindfulness-based treatments for anxiety, (2) explore who benefits from a brief, video-based skill training compared to receiving 4 sessions of therapy, and (3) to evaluate how durable these effects are over 1 year.
Eligibility
- Age range
- 18+ years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- No
Inclusion Criteria: * Presence of clinically elevated anxiety * Living in Ohio Exclusion Criteria: * No access to a smartphone * Presence of conditions that would necessitate alternative care
Interventions
- BehavioralCognitive therapy
Cognitive therapy involves identifying and challenging negative automatic thoughts.
- BehavioralBehavioral therapy
Behavioral therapy involves identifying emotional urges and acting opposite to those urges.
- BehavioralMindfulness-based therapy
Mindfulness-based therapy involves cultivating nonjudgmental present-moment awareness of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.
Location
- Psychology Building at Ohio State UniversityColumbus, Ohio