Active clinical trials for "Anxiety Disorders"

This study will examine a telehealth parenting intervention to reduce anxiety in 20 families of children between 4 and 8 years old with autism and anxiety. Caregivers and children complete 12 telehealth treatment sessions. Caregivers and children will complete pre tests, post tests, and 3 month followup assessments that include observations, heart rate monitoring, and caregiver ratings.

This is a randomized controlled trial of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) versus Psychoeducation and Supportive Therapy (PST) in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and moderate to severe anxiety. The study will utilize fMRI to identify CBT-invoked changes in levels of activity/functional connectivity within the neural circuits involved in emotion regulation and social perception. Matched typically developing children without autism and/or anxiety will be scanned twice, 16 weeks apart, to enable interpretation of treatment-evoked change relative to normative development.

The purpose of this study is to assess whether essential oil aromatherapy could improve or eliminate the smell of burnt flesh from electrocautery and subsequently mitigate patient anxiety and discomfort during dermatologic skin surgery. This is a randomized clinical trial. Approximately 210 electrocautery participants will be randomized to receive sham control/no aromatherapy or aromatherapy. Patients will be asked to complete a questionnaire after completion of the procedure to assess their experience. This study was a pilot study designed to determine the feasibility of this procedure. Subjects currently living in the Chicago metropolitan area and meet inclusion/exclusion criteria will be invited and considered for enrollment.

Virtual Reality will be used to decrease anxiety and pain during suturing of episiotomy and perineal lacerations

The purpose of this study is to look at the best ways to prevent anxiety and depression in older Latino adults who are at risk for developing anxiety and depression. Participants will be randomized to either a health promotion intervention or a healthy lifestyles education program.

This project focuses on adapting and pilot testing an efficacious brief behavioral therapy (STEP-UP) for youths with anxiety or depression to be delivered as a telehealth intervention by clinic staff in low-resource community health centers (CHCs).

The Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP) is a passive acoustic intervention that is designed as a "neural exercise" to promote efficient regulation of autonomic state. Prior research has shown that the SSP can improve autonomic function, auditory hypersensitivities, and emotion regulation in individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders. This observational pilot study is being conducted to establish methods for an upcoming randomized controlled trial to test the utility of the SSP for trauma treatment. This study will enroll clients at the Spencer Psychology clinic who are set to take part in SSP under the supervision of their therapist. Because the therapists have participated in the design of the protocol and will participate in data collection and analysis, SSP will be considered a research procedure. In addition to taking part in SSP, subjects complete a set of questionnaires and have their pulse measured before starting the SSP intervention, after having completed 2/5 hours of the SSP, one week after completing all 5 hours of the SSP, and one month after completing the SSP intervention. The investigators will also pull relevant information from Spencer Psychology's medical records to document diagnosis, track client progress during study, and augment self-reported demographics. Clients who are receiving psychotherapy but not the SSP will be recruited as a comparison group.

The primary aim of this study is to test the hypothesis that use of VR combined with standard procedural education will result in less pre-procedural anxiety than standard procedural education alone among patients undergoing first-time cardiac catheterization. The VR technology being evaluated in this study will allow patients to experience a 3-D simulation of certain aspects of their upcoming procedure prior to the actual procedure date.

Is the pain killer consumption after gingival treatment related to the level of patient anxiety or to the type of therapy?

Experiences such as hospitalization, medical or surgical procedures are stressful, complex and threatening, especially for children and their families. Among the first crisis symptoms that children are faced with are illness, hospitalization and surgery anxiety. There is a direct relationship between the fear and anxiety experienced by children and their parents during the pre-operative processes. Therefore, ensuring not only the psychological but also physiological preparation of both the children and their parents before the surgery is of great importance. In the hospital, applying distraction methods appropriate for the age period of children and conveying procedural information to them simultaneously are difficult and challenging. In such situations, in clinical settings, virtual reality technology can be used at any time and place without requiring extra workforce to eliminate or reduce children's fear and anxiety. Virtual reality applications, as a distracting therapeutic method, are a fun, calming, safe, accessible, effective and acceptable intervention that can be used for the management of acute pain, fear and anxiety in pediatric patients. Such applications can affect children visually, aurally and contextually. Because they are different from common distraction methods used by children such as reading books, playing with toys, watching television or movies, playing a two-dimensional video game or game console. Virtual reality (VR) is used to distract children's attention to reduce fear and anxiety before surgery. A VR tour of the operating theater can provide a realistic experience for children. The aim in this study was to investigate the effect of an actual operating theater tour which is watched by children aged 6-12 years wearing a 3D virtual headset on their fear and anxiety.