Age differences in treatment response to a collaborative care intervention for anxiety disorders.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Some data suggest that older adults with anxiety disorders do not respond as well to treatment as do younger adults.

Aims

We examined age differences in outcomes from the Coordinated Anxiety Learning and Management (CALM) study, an effectiveness trial comparing usual care to a computer-assisted collaborative care intervention for primary care patients with panic disorder, generalised anxiety disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and/or social anxiety disorder. This is the first study to examine the efficacy of a collaborative care intervention in a sample that included both younger and older adults with anxiety disorders. We hypothesised that older adults would show a poorer response to the intervention than younger adults.

Method

We examined fin

SUBMITTER: Wetherell JL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3696879 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature