Universal-Based Prevention of Syndromal and Subsyndromal Social Anxiety: A Randomized Controlled Study

This article reports results from a universal preventive program aimed at (a) reducing social anxiety and (b) preventing the development of syndromal social anxiety among a population-based sample of older children and young adolescents during a 1-year period. Pupils ( N = 1,748) from 2 counties wer...

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Published in:Journal of consulting and clinical psychology 2009-10, Vol.77 (5), p.867-879
Main Authors: Aune, Tore, Stiles, Tore C
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adolescent Development
Adolescents
Anxiety
Biological and medical sciences
Bullying
Child
Childhood Development
Children
Cognitive Therapy - methods
Control Groups
Counties
Effects
Female
Follow-Up Studies
Foreign Countries
Health education
Health Education - methods
Human
Humans
Intervention
Major Depression
Male
Measures (Individuals)
Medical sciences
Mental health
Norway
Personality Inventory - statistics & numerical data
Phobic Disorders - diagnosis
Phobic Disorders - prevention & control
Phobic Disorders - psychology
Practice (Psychology)
Prevention
Prevention. Health policy. Planification
Program Effectiveness
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychometrics
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Pupils
Questionnaires
Social Anxiety
Social development
Social psychiatry. Ethnopsychiatry
Stress Variables
Syndrome
Syndromes
Teachers
Young adults
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Summary:This article reports results from a universal preventive program aimed at (a) reducing social anxiety and (b) preventing the development of syndromal social anxiety among a population-based sample of older children and young adolescents during a 1-year period. Pupils ( N = 1,748) from 2 counties were cluster randomized to either an intervention or a control condition. In the intervention condition, the Norwegian Universal Preventive Program for Social Anxiety (NUPP-SA)-which educates pupils, parents/guardians, teachers/school staff, and county health workers-was administered. The results indicate that NUPP-SA had a significant specific intervention effect for reducing social anxiety in the total sample as well as among the syndromal subjects. Further, significantly fewer subjects from the intervention county developed syndromal social anxiety during the 1-year period, thus showing a prevention effect. The results demonstrate the value of an intervention specifically aimed at reducing social anxiety and preventing the development of syndromal social anxiety among young people.
ISSN:0022-006X
1939-2117
DOI:10.1037/a0015813