Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
New researchA New Parenting-Based Group Intervention for Young Anxious Children: Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial
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Method
This study was approved by an NHS Research Ethics Committee.
Treatment of Data
Most CBCL and SCARED scores were significantly non-normal in the treatment condition. There was also evidence of nonnormality in the MASC. Together with the unequal group sizes, this would bias the F ratio in analysis of variance (ANOVA).25 Therefore, data were analyzed using tests based on a robust estimate of location (an M-estimator) and, where possible, 500 bootstrap samples.26 The bootstrap procedure was chosen because, in situations in which the distribution of scores differs across
Discussion
The results indicate that a cognitive-behavior–based parenting intervention for anxiety in young children may be effective in the treatment of this neglected population.
After treatment, those receiving treatment were more than seven times more likely to be free of their primary diagnosis than were the controls. A similar picture emerged for presence of any anxiety diagnosis.
At follow-up, the number of treated children free of their primary diagnosis remained fairly stable, whereas those
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The study took place in the Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Facility (Manchester).
The authors are very grateful to those took part in this study and to the Mental Health Network (North-West).
Disclosure: Dr. Cartwright-Hatton received support from the MRC Clinician Scientist Fellowship G108/604 during preparation of this manuscript. Drs. McNally, Field, Rust, Laskey, Harrington (deceased), Gallagher, and White, and Ms. Dixon, Ms. Miller, Ms. Pemberton, Ms. Symes, and Ms. Woodham report no biomedical financial interests or potential conflicts of interest.
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