Family-Based Prevention for Childhood Anxiety
Overview
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- Anxiety Disorders
- Sponsor
- Johns Hopkins University
- Enrollment
- 40
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Number of Children With Child Anxiety Diagnosis
- Status
- Completed
- Last Updated
- 8 years ago
Overview
Brief Summary
This study will evaluate the effectiveness of a short-term family-based program for preventing anxiety disorders in at-risk children.
Detailed Description
Anxiety disorders are serious conditions that can negatively impact a person's overall functioning. This study will enroll mothers with anxiety disorders and their children to determine whether a brief family-based intervention will reduce childhood anxiety better than standard care. Participants will be randomly assigned to either the family-based prevention program or to evaluation only for 8 weeks. Participants in the prevention program will have weekly sessions with a therapist and will learn skills to help reduce anxiety. Self- and parent-reports, diagnostic interviews, a computerized memory task, and a videotaped parent-child interaction task will be used to assess participants. Assessments will be conducted at study start and one week after intervention completion (Week 9). Follow-up visits will be conducted at 6 and 12 months after intervention completion.
Investigators
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- •Mothers with a current, primary anxiety disorder
- •7-12 year old children without an anxiety disorder
Exclusion Criteria
- •Mothers that do not have a current, primary anxiety disorder
- •7-12 year old children with an anxiety disorder
- •7-12 year old children that are currently receiving treatment for anxiety that could interfere with the study
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Number of Children With Child Anxiety Diagnosis
Time Frame: 12 month
Measured by the Anxiety Disorder Interview Schedule for the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders 4th edition, child and parent versions.
Child Anxiety Diagnoses
Time Frame: 12 months
The cumulative number of children who developed an anxiety disorder at each assessment point during the study. Using the intent to treat sample, a total of 6 children in the non-intervention group developed an anxiety disorder by the 12-month assessment. No children in the CAPS group developed an anxiety disorder.