Delivery of evidence-based treatment for multiple anxiety disorders in primary care: a randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Context

Improving the quality of mental health care requires moving clinical interventions from controlled research settings into real-world practice settings. Although such advances have been made for depression, little work has been performed for anxiety disorders.

Objective

To determine whether a flexible treatment-delivery model for multiple primary care anxiety disorders (panic, generalized anxiety, social anxiety, and posttraumatic stress disorders) would be better than usual care (UC).

Design, setting, and patients

A randomized controlled effectiveness trial of Coordinated Anxiety Learning and Management (CALM) compared with UC in 17 primary care clinics in 4 US cities. Between June 2006 and April 2008, 1004 patients with anxiety disorders (with or without majo

SUBMITTER: Roy-Byrne P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2928714 | biostudies-literature | 2010 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature