A comparison of emotion-focused therapy and cognitive-behavioural therapy in the treatment of generalised anxiety disorder
- Conditions
- Generalised anxiety disorder (and some potential co-morbid symptoms/conditions)Mental and Behavioural DisordersGeneralized anxiety disorder
- Registration Number
- ISRCTN52689081
- Lead Sponsor
- HSE Counselling in Primary Care
- Brief Summary
2018 Protocol article in https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30231910 protocol 2022 Results article in https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35113639/ (added 04/02/2022)
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 59
1. Participants will be recruited from medical card holding, adult (18 years and older) clients, referred by their GP to the HSE Counselling in Primary Care (CIPC) service (a service offered by the Irish public health service provider)
2. Participants must meet criteria for a primary diagnosis of Generalised Anxiety Disorder on the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-V
3. Participants must agree to be part of the study and consent to study conditions (including giving consent for sessions to be recorded and agreeing to attend appointments for follow up assessments)
4. Clients on medication will be allowed to enter the study provided that their medication has been stabilised for at least 6 weeks
1. Concurrent treatment
2. Suicide risk, or risk of harm to others (as indicated by items on the CORE-OM)
3. Substance abuse
4. Psychosis
5. Organic brain syndrome
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Severity of Generalised Anxiety Disorder symptoms, assessed using the GAD-7 questionnaire (Spitzer, Kroenke, Williams and Löwe, 2006) at pre-treatment, post-treatment, and at 6 month follow-up
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method