Building an Outcomes Assessment Infrastructure to Assess Anxiety Treatment

Description

The collection of patient self-report and diagnostic data will allow us to examine the efficacy of the treatment delivered in the McLean Anxiety Mastery Program. Using data gathered through routine clinical care, the investigators seek to explore whether patients in treatment show improvements from admission to discharge, compared to patients on the waitlist, and whether these gains are maintained three months post-discharge. The following are included as examples of some of the study's hypotheses.

Conditions

Social Anxiety Disorder, Specific Phobia, Separation Anxiety Disorder, Panic Disorder, Agoraphobia, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

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Study overview

The collection of patient self-report and diagnostic data will allow us to examine the efficacy of the treatment delivered in the McLean Anxiety Mastery Program. Using data gathered through routine clinical care, the investigators seek to explore whether patients in treatment show improvements from admission to discharge, compared to patients on the waitlist, and whether these gains are maintained three months post-discharge. The following are included as examples of some of the study's hypotheses.

Building an Outcomes Assessment Infrastructure to Assess Youth in the McLean Anxiety Mastery Program at McLean Hospital

Building an Outcomes Assessment Infrastructure to Assess Anxiety Treatment

Condition
Social Anxiety Disorder
Intervention / Treatment

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Contacts and Locations

Cambridge

McLean Hospital, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, 02138

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

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Eligibility Criteria

  • * All youth who are eligible to participate in the McLean Anxiety Mastery Program will be invited to participate in the research study.
  • * Eligibility criteria for the McLean Anxiety Mastery Program include:
  • * children and adolescents who are between the ages of 6 and 19 and
  • * who present with at least one of the following disorders:
  • * Separation Anxiety Disorder,
  • * Social Anxiety Disorder,
  • * Panic Disorder,
  • * Agoraphobia,
  • * Specific Phobia(s), and
  • * OCD.
  • * Interested and eligible patients and their caregivers should complete and submit an application (https://www.mcleanhospital.org/sites/default/files/2021-07/MAMP-Application-07032021_0.pdf) to begin the phone screen process.
  • * Patients ineligible for the treatment program, and therefore the study, include those who have engaged in substance abuse during the six weeks prior to the first evaluation (i.e., waitlist or admission) the phone screening,
  • * those who report that they are unwilling to refrain from self-injurious behaviors during the waitlist and treatment periods,
  • * those who are experiencing active symptoms of psychosis,
  • * those who exhibit severe behavioral disinhibition or aggression, and
  • * those who express an intent and/or plan to commit suicide or homicide at the time of their first evaluation the initial phone screening.
  • * Patients must be fluent in English to participate in the program because all off-grounds exposure groups will be conducted in English (whenever possible, however, translation services will be provided for patients whose parents are not fluent in English).

Ages Eligible for Study

6 Years to 19 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Collaborators and Investigators

Mclean Hospital,

Jacqueline Sperling, Ph.D., PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, Mclean Hospital

Study Record Dates

2070-10