NCT03711513

Facing Fears by Focussing on Behaviour, Body, or Mind?

Completed NA Last updated 30 May 2019

What this trial tests

NA trial testing Cognitive behavioral therapy in Social Anxiety in 65 participants. Completed in 31 January 2019.

Timeline

6 November 2017

Primary endpoint
31 January 2019

31 January 2019

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	University of Groningen
Phase	NA
Status	Completed
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	randomized
Design	parallel
Masking	single
Primary purpose	treatment
Enrollment	65
Start date	6 November 2017
Primary completion	31 January 2019
Estimated completion	31 January 2019
Sites	4 locations across Netherlands

Drugs / interventions tested

• Cognitive behavioral therapy

Conditions studied

• Social Anxiety — all drugs for Social Anxiety →

Sponsor

University of Groningen

Who can join

Adults 12 to 15, any sex, with Social Anxiety. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

Anxiety problems are a major concern of youth mental health given that the prevalence of anxiety disorders in Dutch adolescents aged 12 to 18 is approximately 10 percent. In this group, social phobia like speech or performance anxiety are among the most common. Intervention programs based on the principles of exposure-based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) have proven to be the most effective and most applied in therapy for social anxiety among adolescents. Thus far, research has mainly focused on effectiveness of "intervention packages" consisting of multiple CBT elements (i.e., exposure plus cognitive restructuring and relaxation exercises). The most common CBT element in current intervention packages for anxiety in youth is exposure, which is often only applied after providing the child with cognitive restructuring (CR) and relaxation exercises (RE) as preparation for exposure. However, although most empirical evidence supports the value of the use of exposure, there is hardly empirical evidence for the additional value of CR or RE. In addition, it is unclear whether the combination of these elements with exposure is counterproductive compared to the use of exposure only. After all, without lengthening the treatment, the addition of CR and/or RE will leave the therapist and child with less time to spend on exposure exercises.This study proposes to evaluate the effectiveness of these three different types of CBT-elements in the treatment of speech/performance anxiety among adolescents.

Publications & conference data

No peer-reviewed publications indexed yet for this trial. Completed trials usually publish results within 12-18 months.