Secondary Outcomes From the Child/Adolescent Anxiety Multimodal Study: Implications for Clinical Practice.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Controlled evaluations comparing medication, cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), and their combination in the treatment of youth anxiety have predominantly focused on global ratings by independent evaluators. Such ratings are resource-intensive, may be of limited generalizability, and do not directly inform our understanding of treatment responses from the perspective of treated families. We examined outcomes from the perspective of treated youth and parents in the Child/Adolescent Anxiety Multimodal Study (CAMS).

Methods

Participants (N=488; ages 7-17 years) who had a primary diagnosis of separation, social, and/or generalized anxiety disorder were randomly assigned to a treatment condition in the CAMS trial. Linear mixed-effects and ANCOVA models examined parent

SUBMITTER: Albano AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6425733 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature