Brief modular anxiety intervention for primary care: Hybrid I pilot randomized controlled trial of feasibility, acceptability, effectiveness, and implementation potential.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Anxiety is highly prevalent, but undertreated, in primary care. Brief, non-pharmacological interventions are needed. Modular Anxiety Skills Training (MAST), a cognitive-behavioral anxiety intervention, was developed for primary care and tailored for a Veteran sample (MAST-V). The purpose of this mixed methods pilot study was to evaluate MAST-V's feasibility, acceptability, and implementation potential, and preliminarily examine its effectiveness compared to Primary Care Behavioral Health (PCBH) usual care.

Methods

This hybrid I randomized controlled trial (conducted 2019-2021) assigned 35 primary care patients (M_age = 47, 17 % female, 27 % racial/ethnic minority) with clinically significant anxiety symptoms to receive MAST-V or PCBH usual care. Particip

SUBMITTER: Shepardson RL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12188310 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature