Family-Based Prevention Program for Childhood Anxiety - Full Text View

Purpose

This study will evaluate the effectiveness of a short-term family-based program for preventing anxiety disorders in at-risk children.

Condition	Intervention
Anxiety Disorders	Behavioral: Family-Based Anxiety Prevention Program

MedlinePlus related topics:

Anxiety

U.S. FDA Resources

Study Type:	Interventional
Study Design:	Prevention, Randomized, Open Label, Placebo Control, Parallel Assignment, Efficacy Study

Official Title:	Family-Based Prevention for Childhood Anxiety

Further study details as provided by National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH):

Estimated Enrollment:	40
Study Start Date:	September 2003
Estimated Study Completion Date:	December 2005

Detailed Description:

Anxiety disorder is a serious condition that can negatively impact a person's overall functioning. This study will enroll mothers with anxiety disorders and their children to determine whether a brief family-based intervention will reduce childhood anxiety better than standard care.

Participants will be randomly assigned to either the family-based prevention program or to evaluation only for 8 weeks. Participants in the prevention program will have weekly sessions with a therapist and will learn skills to help reduce anxiety. Self- and parent-reports, diagnostic interviews, a computerized memory task, and a videotaped parent-child interaction task will be used to assess participants. Assessments will be conducted at study start and one week after study completion (Week 9). Follow-up visits will be conducted at 6 and 12 months after study completion.

Eligibility

Ages Eligible for Study:	7 Years and older
Genders Eligible for Study:	Both
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:	No

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

Mothers with anxiety disorder and their 7- to 12-year-old children

Contacts and Locations

Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00078728

Locations


United States, Maryland
	Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
	Baltimore, Maryland, United States, 21205

Sponsors and Collaborators

National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

Investigators


Principal Investigator:	Golda S. Ginsburg, PhD	Johns Hopkins University

More Information

Study ID Numbers:	K23 MH63427, DDTR BK-TKPD
First Received:	March 5, 2004
Last Updated:	October 23, 2007
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:	NCT00078728
Health Authority:	United States: Federal Government

Keywords provided by National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH):

Anxiety

Study placed in the following topic categories:

Anxiety Disorders

Mental Disorders

ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on November 30, 2008

Sponsored by:	National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
Information provided by:	National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:	NCT00078728