Follow the Dot to Beat your Anxiety

Recruiting

Conditions: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms, Anxiety Disorders, Anxiety Symptoms

Registration Number: NL-OMON28574

Lead Sponsor: Tilburg University

Brief Summary: Not available

Detailed Description: Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status: Recruiting

Sex: Not specified

Target Recruitment: 208

Inclusion Criteria

Aged 8-17 years.
- Able to read/write and communicate in the Dutch language.
- Indication for EMDR linked to a traumatic event or life-event causing symptoms of trauma-related stress and anxiety, resulting in clinically significant distress or impairment.
- Experiencing >1 symptoms of avoidance or safety behavior (either avoiding or making efforts to avoid distressing memories, thoughts or feelings and/or avoiding or making efforts to avoid external reminders).
- Supporting family system.

Exclusion Criteria

- Complex Trauma (cumulative poly-victimization that is typically interpersonal in nature and involves direct harm, exploitation or neglect/abandonment by caregivers).
- The presence of symptoms in more urgent need of treatment (e.g. suicidal intent/acts, acute psychosis).
- Starting (new) psychotropic medication in the three months prior to the start of the trial, OR during the EMDR treatment.
- An IQ<80 as estimated by the therapist or based on information in the clinical record.
- Following other psychological treatment simultaneously with the EMDR treatment (starting from baseline to post-test).
- Having epilepsy

Study & Design

Study Type: Interventional

Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
PTSD symptoms (Dutch version of the Child and Adolescent Trauma Screen; CATS) <br>Anxiety symptoms (Youth Anxiety Measure for DSM-5; YAM-5) <br>Avoidance behavior (The Child Avoidance Measure – Self Report/Parent report; CAMS/P)

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Depression (Childhood Depression Inventory, CDI)<br>Parental distress (distress thermometer for parents, DT-P)<br>Quality of Life (PedsQL 3.0 General Wellbeing Scale)<br>Treatment satisfaction<br>Treatment characteristics (e.g., diminished SUD scores and higher VoC scores)<br><br>Emotions and emotion regulation strategies measured in daily life using Experience Sampling Method (ESM).<br>