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Clinical Trials/NL-OMON49153
NL-OMON49153
Recruiting
Not Applicable

Optimizing exposure in the treatment of anxiety in youth: Facing fears in big or small steps? - Facing fears

Rijksuniversiteit Groningen0 sites50 target enrollmentTBD

Overview

Phase
Not Applicable
Intervention
Not specified
Conditions
specific fear
Sponsor
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
Enrollment
50
Status
Recruiting
Last Updated
last year

Overview

Brief Summary

No summary available.

Registry
who.int
Start Date
TBD
End Date
TBD
Last Updated
last year
Study Type
Interventional

Investigators

Sponsor
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

  • Aged between 8\-17 years old and in primary or secondary school • Sufficient
  • knowledge of the Dutch language • Meeting the criteria of a specific phobia of
  • the situational or animal subtype either one of the following subtypes: o
  • Animal: fear of pets, insects, spiders, small reptiles and amphibians, farm
  • animals, birds o Natural environment: fear of heights, darkness, thunder, fire
  • o Medical: fear of blood, needles, medical or dental care, injury, choking o
  • Situational: fear of enclosed places, elevators, escalators, using one specific
  • type of transportation (cars, buses, trains, ships) o Other: fear of loud
  • sounds, fireworks, costumed characters, amputated limbs, fruit etc

Exclusion Criteria

  • Absence of permission of legal guardian(s) • Currently in treatment or
  • receiving medication for anxiety • Received CBT for anxiety in the past 12
  • months • Specific phobia that do not fall cannot be treated with either
  • in\-session or out\-session exposure due to absence of available phobic stimuli,
  • for example: o Animal: fear of zoo animals o Natural environment: fear of
  • water, lightning, storms, fires o Medical: fear of invasive medical procedures,
  • infection, vomiting o Situational: fear of using multiple types of
  • transportation (cars, buses, trains, ships), plane flights o Other: fear of
  • open spaces etc. • Different and more urgent request for help • (Risk of)
  • suicidality, psychosis or domestic violence

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Not specified

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