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Are young people with primary social anxiety disorder less likely to recover following generic CBT compared to young people with other primary anxiety disorders? A systematic review and meta-analysis
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Background:
Social Anxiety Disorder (SoAD) in youth is often treated with a generic form of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT). Some studies have suggested primary SoAD is associated with lower recovery rates following generic CBT compared to other anxiety disorders.
Aims:
This systematic review and meta-analysis investigated recovery rates following generic CBT for youth with primary SoAD versus other primary anxiety disorders.
Method:
5 databases (Psycinfo, Web of Science, PubMed, Embase, Medline) were searched for randomised controlled trials of generic CBT for child and/or adolescent anxiety.
Results:
10 trials met criteria for inclusion in the systematic review, 6 of which presented sufficient data for inclusion in the meta-analysis. 67 did not report data on recovery rates relative to primary diagnosis. While most individual studies included in the systematic review weren’t sufficiently powered to detect a difference in recovery rates between diagnoses, there was a pattern of lower recovery rates for youth with primary SoAD. Across the trials included in the meta-analysis, the post-CBT recovery rate from primary SoAD (35%) was significantly lower than the recovery rate from other primary anxiety disorders (54%).
Conclusions:
Recovery from primary SoAD is significantly less likely than recovery from any other primary anxiety disorder following generic CBT in youth. This suggests a need for research to enhance the efficacy of CBT for youth SoAD.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1017/s135246582000079x
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- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Journal:
- Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy More from this journal
- Volume:
- 49
- Issue:
- 3
- Pages:
- 352-369
- Publication date:
- 2020-12-10
- Acceptance date:
- 2020-09-23
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1469-1833
- ISSN:
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1352-4658
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English
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- Pubs id:
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1136522
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pubs:1136522
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2020-10-08
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- British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies
- Copyright date:
- 2020
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- © British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies 2020. This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence, which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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