Evaluation of a preventive intervention for child anxiety in two randomized attention-control school trials |
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| Authors: | Miller Lynn D Laye-Gindhu Aviva Liu Yan March John S Thordarson Dana S Garland E Jane |
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| Institution: | aUniversity of British Columbia, Dept of Educational and Counselling Psychology and Special Education, 2125 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada;bDuke University, School of Medicine, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Durham, NC, USA;cBritish Columbia Children’s and Women’s Hospital, Dept of Psychiatry, Vancouver, Canada |
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| Abstract: | The present research examined the effectiveness of a cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) based intervention program, FRIENDS, for children from grades 4 to 6, using random assignment at the school-level and an attention-control design in two longitudinal studies. The first study targeted children with anxiety symptoms (N = 191, mean age = 10.1) as screened with self, parent, and teacher-reports; the second study took a universal approach with full classrooms of children participating (N = 253, mean age = 9.8). The results showed no intervention effect in both studies, with children’s anxiety symptoms decreasing over time regardless of whether they were in the story-reading (attention control) or FRIENDS condition. The findings also indicated that girls reported a higher level of anxiety than boys and children in higher grades reported lower anxiety relative to younger children in both studies. In addition, similar patterns were found using a subgroup of children with high-anxiety symptoms from both studies. |
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| Keywords: | Anxiety School-based interventions Effectiveness research Attention control |
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