Child/Adolescent Anxiety Multimodal Study (CAMS): rationale, design, and methods.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To present the design, methods, and rationale of the Child/Adolescent Anxiety Multimodal Study (CAMS), a recently completed federally-funded, multi-site, randomized placebo-controlled trial that examined the relative efficacy of cognitive-behavior therapy (CBT), sertraline (SRT), and their combination (COMB) against pill placebo (PBO) for the treatment of separation anxiety disorder (SAD), generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) and social phobia (SoP) in children and adolescents.

Methods

Following a brief review of the acute outcomes of the CAMS trial, as well as the psychosocial and pharmacologic treatment literature for pediatric anxiety disorders, the design and methods of the CAMS trial are described.

Results

CAMS was a six-year, six-site, randomized control

SUBMITTER: Compton SN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2818613 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature