University of Denver
Anxiety is chronic, debilitating, and the most common mental health problem across development, costing the U.S. over $42 billion annually. This phased innovation grant will test a symptom-personalized cognitive bias modification for interpretation bias (CBM-I) as a mechanistic intervention to reduce interpretation bias and, subsequently, anxiety, in clinically anxious youth. In this R33 trial, participants will be youth ages 10 to 17 (N=72) with a primary "big three" anxiety disorder (i.e., Generalized, Separation, Social). Youth will be randomly assigned to receive either 16 sessions of personalized CBM-I (the optimal dose identified in the R61 Phase of this study) or equivalent time (four one-hour sessions) over four weeks of a cognitive restructuring (CR), intervention. Both interventions aim to modify threat-focused thinking. Please note that the first phase of the trial (R61: NCT04245501 under NIMH award R61MH121552) has been completed and currently this record summary only reflects the R33 phase.
Anxiety is chronic, debilitating, and the most common mental health problem across development, costing the U.S. over $42 billion annually. As anxiety disorders most commonly onset before age 18, the period from childhood through adolescence offers a critical window within which to intervene. Unfortunately, evidence-based interventions are costly, not widely available, and ineffective for upwards of 50% of youth. In response, pediatric anxiety experts and the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) have called for approaches that directly target underlying mechanisms to improve treatments f…
Inclusion Criteria: * Provision of signed and dated informed consent form by parent/legal guardian and signed youth assent. If youth turns 18 after study entry (i.e., Visit 1), they will need to reconsent as an adult to continue participation. Youth and consenting parent/legal guardian agree to 6-week study participation as part of consent/assent process. * Youth and parent/legal guardian speak sufficient English to engage in study procedures. * Youth is aged 10 to 17 inclusive, at time of signing consent/assent and completion of Visit 1 procedures. * Youth meets full diagnostic criteria for…
Computerized intervention in which youth see word-sentence pairs personalized to their anxiety symptoms, and indicate whether these are related. Youth receive feedback aimed to reduce interpretation b
Adapted from well-tested manual, The Coping Cat (child and adolescent versions), administered by trained, supervised therapists. Duration of CR is matched to CBM-I in regard to total time in intervention across four weeks.
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