Impact of treatment improvement on long-term anxiety: Results from CAMS and CAMELS.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This article examined associations between change in youth and family characteristics during youth anxiety treatment and long-term anxiety severity and overall functioning.

Method

Participants (N = 488; age 7-17 years; 45% male; 82% white) were randomized to 12 weeks of cognitive behavioral therapy (Coping Cat), medication (sertraline), their combination, or pill placebo in the Child/Adolescent Anxiety Multimodal Study (CAMS). A subset participated in the naturalistic follow-up Child/Adolescent Anxiety Multimodal Extended Long-term Study (CAMELS; n = 319; 3.70-11.83 years post-treatment). The current secondary analyses examined how change in anxiety severity (Child Global Impression-Severity), overall functioning (Children's Global Assessment Scale), caregiv

SUBMITTER: Crane ME 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7959050 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature