Active clinical trials for "Anxiety Disorders"

Transdiagnostic Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) delivered in the individual format, have been proven just as effective as traditional diagnosis specific CBT manuals. The investigators have translated and modified the "The Unified Protocol for Transdiagnostic Treatment of Emotional Disorders" (UP-CBT) to make it applicable as group therapy in Danish Mental Health Service and a naturalistic trial of this manual has shown promising results. As the use of one manual instead of several diagnosis specific manuals in regional clinics could simplify logistics and reduce waiting time, the investigators want to compare group UP-CBT with diagnosis specific group CBT. Method: A partial blinded, pragmatic, non-inferiority, multicentre randomized clinical trial (RCT). UP-CBT is compared to treatment-as-usual CT. 124 patients are included in each intervention arm, recruited from three Danish regional Mental Health Service Clinics. 31st July 2018 suppl: Inclusion number expanded to 170 in each arm due to unexpected large drop-out.

The aim of this study is to evaluate the effect of perioperative music on maternal anxiety, hemodynamic response to spinal anesthesia, postoperative pain medication requirement, and overall maternal satisfaction. Investigators hypothesize that women exposed to perioperative music will have greater overall satisfaction with the delivery experience. Investigators also hypothesize that perioperative music will lower anxiety levels of women having a scheduled cesarean delivery, result in a less profound degree of spinal-induced hypotension prior to cesarean delivery, and result in a lower requirement of analgesics postpartum.

The objective of this study is to test the efficacy of a Trauma-Focused Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy (TF-CBT) adapted for use with victims of terrorism in Spain who are diagnosed with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), major depressive disorder and/or anxiety disorders subsequent to direct or indirect exposure to a series of terrorist attacks that occurred 20 years prior to treatment on average. Spanish victims who meet the criteria for long-term posttraumatic stress disorder, major depressive disorder, and/or anxiety disorders related to direct or indirect exposure to terrorist attacks that occurred 20 years ago, on average, will be randomly assigned to 16 weekly sessions of TF-CBT (experimental group) or waiting list control (control group) conditions. Between groups comparisons related to diagnostic rates and posttraumatic, depressive and anxiety symptoms will be made immediately after the intervention. Pre- follow-up comparisons related to diagnostic rates and posttraumatic, depressive, and anxiety symptoms will be carried out for the experimental group. It is hypothesised that participants receiving TF-CBT will have significantly lower diagnostic rates and mean levels of posttraumatic, depressive and anxiety symptoms than the control group immediately after the intervention, and that they will experience significant pre-treatment to 6-month follow-up decreases in diagnostic rates and in posttraumatic, depressive and anxiety symptoms.

One-third of the U.S. population experience anxiety disorders in their lifetime and only 25% of them seek treatment, reporting logistics and cost of treatment among the primary barriers. A potential way to prevent and treat multiple anxiety disorders is to target the risk factors that contribute to their etiology. One such well-researched risk factor is anxiety sensitivity (AS), a fear of anxiety-related sensations. Given a need for affordable and accessible brief treatments, we and our colleagues have been iteratively developing Brief Enhanced Anxiety Sensitivity Treatment (BEAST), a one-session virtual treatment targeting AS. Older versions of BEAST include psychoeducation, interoceptive exposure (IE), and IE homework. Several studies showed that the previous versions of BEAST reduced AS and, through the reductions in AS, they also reduced anxiety. However, the effect sizes for the decrease in anxiety were modest. Efficacy and personalization may be improved using Ecological Momentary Intervention (EMI). EMI delivers brief interventions remotely in real-time and in natural settings. The goal of the current study is to test the efficacy of adding EMI to BEAST. Participants will be randomly assigned to EMI and control (no EMI) conditions. All participants will receive a virtual 1.5-hour-long intervention group session facilitated by a therapist. The EMI group will receive individualized intervention messages helping them to use new skills for two weeks after the session. After the two-week EMI period, all participants will complete post-treatment measures of AS and anxiety. A month later, they will complete a follow-up assessing AS and anxiety. The efficacy of the EMI component in reducing AS and anxiety will be tested using multilevel modeling. Improving the efficacy of BEAST, while keeping it brief, affordable, and accessible online, is an important step towards making it a treatment that may be used on a large scale.

This study investigates the feasibility and preliminary efficacy of a self-guided, exposure-based intervention for individuals who suffer from severe health anxiety. The study is a prospective single-group study based at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, where 20-25 adults with DSM-5 Illness anxiety disorder or Somatic symptom disorder are enrolled in 8 weeks of unguided exposure-based treatment via the Internet. Outcomes include self-reported health anxiety symptoms, credibility and expectancy, adherence to the treatment protocol, client satisfaction, and negative events.

With this study, the investigators aim to use sleep and dreaming in order to enhance exposure therapy for social anxiety disorder (SAD), by pairing the positive feedback phase of exposure (public talk) to an auditory stimulus during wake (associated sound) and subsequently applying this stimulus during sleep (targeted memory reactivation, TMR). Exposure therapy sessions will take place in a virtual reality (VR) environment, while physiological measures during the preparation phase of public talk such as heart rate variability (HRV), skin conductance response (SCR) and subjective level of anxiety (SUDS) will be used in order to assess treatment efficiency across the sessions. Patients with SAD according to DSM-5 criteria will be included. The main hypothesis of this study is that participants who are presented with the associated sound during sleep (TMR group) will have reduced intensity of social anxiety compared to participants with no such association (control group), after both a full night's sleep with auditory stimulation during REM sleep in the laboratory, and after 1 week of stimulation during REM sleep at home. In addition, it is expected that fear-related dreams may correlate with anxiety levels during wakefulness after 1 week of stimulation at home.

The study in order to evaluate the effect of virtual reality glasses during splint in children on pain and anxiety due to the procedure.

The present project aims at conducting a proof of concept study to explore the pertinence of a single session of cardiac coherence, carried out in patients prior to an MRI examination and presenting anxiety in relation to this examination, to reduce their level of anxiety and thus improve the course of the examination.

Infertility affects approximately 48 million couples and 186 million individuals globally, and it has biological, psychosocial, and economic problems in couples. It is a vital global reproductive health problem that has burdens and affects not only families but also society and the state. Studies indicate that many situations experienced during the infertility treatment process negatively affect the treatment results, and the anxiety of individuals receiving treatment, especially women, is high. The previous literature reports that during the infertility treatment process, women experience a decrease in their anxiety and self-confidence about drug administration, they have doubts about the dose, administration, and time of drugs, and the rate of mistakes made regarding drug administration is too high to be ignored. Such cases may lead to cycle cancellations in infertility treatment, interrupting the treatment, adversely affecting the success of the treatment, and thus exposing the couple to more than one treatment trial. The interruption of the treatment with the cycle cancellation, the increase in the number of treatment attempts, the repetitions cause the woman to be exposed to a higher amount of drug, the cost to increase with each treatment trial, an increase in the economic burden of the couples, and an increase in the financial burden for the country. In addition to these physical and economic burdens, feelings such as anxiety, concern, hopelessness, and depression increase in couples, and they may eventually experience burnout. In order to improve the care of infertile individuals, it is clearly stated in the literature that couples need open communication channels with health care professionals, obtaining qualified information, instilling realistic hope, empowerment, accessibility of care services, and they have unmet and high-quality care needs. The increase in the use and use of web-based education services in the globalizing world gives us hope in providing a solution to this issue. This project was mainly designed to answer the question of "Is the responsive web-based roadmap (InT-mAp) developed in solving the problems encountered in drug administration, treatment success and reducing anxiety in infertile women treated with Assisted Reproductive Techniques (ART)?" With InT-mAp, which investigators will develop using web-based education technology, which is a distance education method in this age of technology; investigators aimed to reduce/reduce the margin of error in ART treatment-drug practices, to contribute positively to the treatment process, and to reduce the social, economic and psychological burdens by reducing the anxiety level of individuals in this process. Besides, the InT-mAp, which will be developed to meet individuals' education and counseling needs for general infertility issues and the treatment process, will reduce the workload of healthcare professionals working in this field and make a positive contribution to drug administration consultancy. With this study, investigators aimed to provide participants with time-saving, individualized care, to reach the right information whenever they want, regardless of time and place, on every subject they need in the field of infertility. Investigators predict that sufficient follicle development, healthy oocytes and pregnancy can be achieved by creating awareness in infertile women and minimizing the conditions that may adversely affect the treatment process and results. Contributing to the health and economic indicators of the country by reducing cycle cancellations and reducing costs are among our important goals. The most important features that make the project unique are the absence of online support and a sensitive web-based training platform, where the infertility treatment process in Turkey can be followed in detail by the users, and individualized care and training needs are met.

In this study, it was aimed to investigate the relationship between postoperative nausea and vomiting, anxiety levels and pain scores in the postoperative period according to dosing and choosing of intravenous fluid type that the patients received in the preoperative period.