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Effects of a transdiagnostic cognitive behaviour therapy-based programme on the natural course of anxiety symptoms in adolescence.
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Journal of Affective Disorders . Mar2020, Vol. 264, p474-482. 9p. - Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- <bold>Background: </bold>Anxiety disorders frequently have an onset during adolescence, which when left untreated could lead to a chronic course and outcome. This study aimed to examine the way in which a cognitive behaviour therapy-based programme (Super Skills for Life - adolescent version; SSL-A) could change the course of anxiety symptoms through adolescent's behavioural performance and cardiac function.<bold>Method: </bold>Sixty-one adolescents at risk of developing an anxiety disorder (45.30% boys; M = 13.76 years, SD = 0.32) were randomly assigned to either an intervention (IG), placebo (PG), or a waitlist group (WG). Adolescents in the IG participated in SSL-A over an 8-week period. Adolescents in the PG participated in an 8-session school-work programme. Adolescents in the WG did not receive any intervention. Anxiety symptoms were assessed every six months, twice before the intervention, as well as at the post-intervention and six months after the intervention. Participants in the IG additionally underwent a stressful task to assess behavioural performance and cardiac adjustment.<bold>Results: </bold>Adolescents in the IG significantly reported lower levels of social phobia and generalised anxiety symptoms at the follow-up assessment compared to the adolescents in the PG and the WG. They also showed a significant improvement in vocal quality and lower discomfort during a stressful task at post-intervention, and showed attenuated cardiac recovery indexes, in terms of sample entropy.<bold>Limitations: </bold>The study has a small sample size.<bold>Conclusion: </bold>SSL-A changed the natural course of anxiety symptoms, as shown by a significant reduction in social phobia and generalised anxiety symptoms, and a significant improvement in behaviour and physiological (cardiac) function during a stressful situation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *SOCIAL phobia
*ADOLESCENCE
*ANXIETY
*ANXIETY disorders
*LIFE skills
*HEART beat
*ANXIETY disorders treatment
*RESEARCH
*FERRANS & Powers Quality of Life Index
*SOCIAL participation
*RESEARCH methodology
*EVALUATION research
*MEDICAL cooperation
*COMPARATIVE studies
*PSYCHOLOGICAL tests
*SCHOOLS
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 01650327
- Volume :
- 264
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Affective Disorders
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 141606933
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2019.11.078