The purposes of this study are: (1) to identify baseline predictors of relative success in cognitive, behavioral, and mindfulness-based treatments for anxiety, (2) explore who benefits from a brief, video-based skill training compared to receiving 4 sessions of therapy, and (3) to evaluate how durable these effects are over 1 year.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Enrollment
600
Cognitive therapy involves identifying and challenging negative automatic thoughts.
Behavioral therapy involves identifying emotional urges and acting opposite to those urges.
Mindfulness-based therapy involves cultivating nonjudgmental present-moment awareness of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.
Psychology Building at Ohio State University
Columbus, Ohio, United States
RECRUITINGOverall Anxiety Severity and Impairment Scale (OASIS)
Minimum value: 0. Maximum value = 20. High scores mean worse outcomes.
Time frame: Weekly for 6 weeks, then monthly for 1 year.
Overall Depression Severity and Impairment Scale (ODSIS)
Minimum = 0. Maximum = 20. Higher scores mean worse outcomes.
Time frame: Weekly for 6 weeks, then monthly for 1 year.
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