A randomized controlled trial of a bidirectional cultural adaptation of cognitive behavior therapy for children and adolescents with anxiety disorders

Cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) programs with ethnic and cultural sensitivity are scarce. This study was the first randomized controlled trial of cognitive behavior therapy for children and adolescents with anxiety disorders using bidirectional cultural adaptation. The Japanese Anxiety Children/Ado...

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Published in:Behaviour research and therapy 2019-09, Vol.120, p.103432-103432, Article 103432
Main Authors: Ishikawa, Shin-ichi, Kikuta, Kazuyo, Sakai, Mie, Mitamura, Takashi, Motomura, Naoyasu, Hudson, Jennifer L.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adaptation
Adolescents
Anxiety
Anxiety disorders
Behavior modification
Behavior therapy
Bidirectionality
Child
Children
Clinical outcomes
Clinical trials
Cognition & reasoning
Cognitive ability
Cognitive behavior therapy
Cognitive behavioral therapy
Cognitive-behavioral factors
Cultural adaptation
Cultural sensitivity
Efficacy
Feedback
Mental depression
Self report
Teenagers
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Summary:Cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) programs with ethnic and cultural sensitivity are scarce. This study was the first randomized controlled trial of cognitive behavior therapy for children and adolescents with anxiety disorders using bidirectional cultural adaptation. The Japanese Anxiety Children/Adolescents Cognitive Behavior Therapy program (JACA-CBT) was developed based on existing evidence-based CBT for anxious youth and optimized through feedback from clinicians in the indigenous cultural group. Fifty-one children and adolescents aged 8–15 with anxiety disorders were randomly allocated to either a cognitive behavioral treatment (CBT: 122.08 days, SD = 48.15) or a wait-list control condition (WLC: 70.00 days, SD = 11.01). Participants were assessed at pre-treatment and post-treatment as well as 3 and 6 months after completion of treatment (92.88 days, SD = 17.72 and 189.42 days, SD = 25.06) using a diagnostic interview, self-report measures of anxiety, depression, cognitive errors, and a parent-report measure of anxiety. A significant difference was found between the CBT and WLC at post-treatment, specifically 50% of participants in the treatment condition were free from their principal diagnoses compared to 12% in the wait-list condition, χ2 (1, N = 51) = 8.55, η2 = 0.17, p 
ISSN:0005-7967
1873-622X
DOI:10.1016/j.brat.2019.103432