Empowering Anxious Parents to Manage Child Avoidance Behaviors: Randomized Control Trial of a Single-Session Intervention for Parental Accommodation.

ABSTRACT:

Background

A majority of youth who need anxiety treatment never access support. This disparity reflects a need for more accessible, scalable interventions-particularly those that may prevent anxiety in high-risk children, mitigating future need for higher-intensity care. Self-guided single-session interventions (SSIs) may offer a promising path toward this goal, given their demonstrated clinical utility, potential for disseminability, and low cost. However, existing self-guided SSIs have been designed for completion by adolescents already experiencing symptoms, and their potential for preventing anxiety in children-for instance, by mitigating known anxiety risk factors-remains unexplored.

Objective

This trial evaluated the acceptability and proximal effects of project EMPOWE

SUBMITTER: Sung JY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8292931 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature