Coaching for Confidence: Evaluating an Internet-based Program to Help Parents Help Children With Difficulty With Anxiety

NCT02705261 | Unknown

• 1 other identifier: 246529
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 92
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

The study is an open trial to evaluate a web-based intervention. The intervention focuses on supporting parents to help their children to overcome problems with anxiety. The children who are the focus of the study are in the age ranges of 4 - 12 and experience problems with separation anxiety, social anxiety, or generalized anxiety as identified by their parents. The program will exclude obsessive-compulsive disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder that are seen less often in this age group and require somewhat different interventions.

Conditions

Anxiety Disorders

Keywords

child; behavior therapy; cognitive therapy; parent; anxiety

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Spence Children's Anxiety Scale - Parent-rated

  Rating scale describing a child's anxiety symptoms - 39 items

  12 weeks

Secondary Outcomes (2)

• Clinical Global Improvement Scale - parent confidence

  12 weeks

• Clinical Global Improvement Scale - child anxiety

  12 weeks

Study Arms (1)

Cognitive-behavior therapy

EXPERIMENTAL

Cognitive-behavior therapy to teach parents the skills to help their children. Participants will have access to the program as often as they wish and have the post assessment at week 12.

Behavioral: cognitive-behavior therapy

Interventions

cognitive-behavior therapy BEHAVIORAL

Internet based program to support parents in developing strategies to help their children

Cognitive-behavior therapy

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 4 Years - 12 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Child (0-17)

You may qualify if:

• diagnosis of social anxiety, separation anxiety, or generalized anxiety disorder
• judged by parent to have anxiety that interferes with functioning in the home or school.
• judged by clinician to have anxiety that interferes with functioning in the home or school.
• parent unable to read and write in English.
• parent unable to access the internet regularly - at least once a week

You may not qualify if:

• diagnosis of obsessive compulsive disorder
• diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder
• diagnosis of school refusal and not attending school at least half of the time
• diagnosis of selective mutism
• diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder
• diagnosis of pervasive developmental disorder
• child currently receiving psychosocial treatment for anxiety

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of Manitoba: lead

Study Sites (1)

University of Manitoba, College of Medicine

Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3E0W3, Canada

Location

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Anxiety Disorders

Interventions

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Mental Disorders

Intervention Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Behavior Therapy; Psychotherapy; Behavioral Disciplines and Activities

Study Officials

• John R. Walker, Ph.D.

  University of Manitoba, College of Medicine

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: NA
• Masking: NONE
• Masking Details: Open label
• Purpose: TREATMENT
• Intervention Model: SINGLE GROUP
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Professor, Dept of Clinical Health Psychology

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: March 7, 2016
• First Posted: March 10, 2016
• Study Start: March 1, 2016
• Primary Completion: September 30, 2018
• Study Completion: December 31, 2018
• Last Updated: July 24, 2018

Record last verified: 2018-07

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

CA (1)