OBJECTIVE: To examine treatment response and maintenance to exposure-based cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) for Hispanic/Latino relative to European-American youths with phobic and anxiety disorders. METHOD: A total of 131 Hispanic/Latino and European-American youths (aged 6-16 years) who participated in two previous clinical trials for phobic and anxiety disorders were compared along diagnostic recovery rates, clinically significant improvement, and youth- and parent-completed questionnaire scores using traditional hypothesis tests, including effect sizes, and statistical equivalence tests. RESULTS: After treatment, Hispanic/Latino and European-American youths responded similarly to exposure-based CBT in their diagnostic recovery rates and questionnaires. Effect sizes for questionnaire data were also more similar than different across the two groups. With regard to treatment maintenance, Hispanic/Latino and European-American youths also responded more similarly than differently, albeit with some variations within specific assessment points in questionnaire data. CONCLUSIONS: Exposure-based CBT for phobic and anxiety disorders produced positive treatment gains and maintenance for Hispanic/Latino youths who participated in the trials. The treatment response that can be expected is generally similar (i.e., favorable) and equivalent to that found with European-American youths based on all the available indices of change.
OBJECTIVE: To examine treatment response and maintenance to exposure-based cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) for Hispanic/Latino relative to European-American youths with phobic and anxiety disorders. METHOD: A total of 131 Hispanic/Latino and European-American youths (aged 6-16 years) who participated in two previous clinical trials for phobic and anxiety disorders were compared along diagnostic recovery rates, clinically significant improvement, and youth- and parent-completed questionnaire scores using traditional hypothesis tests, including effect sizes, and statistical equivalence tests. RESULTS: After treatment, Hispanic/Latino and European-American youths responded similarly to exposure-based CBT in their diagnostic recovery rates and questionnaires. Effect sizes for questionnaire data were also more similar than different across the two groups. With regard to treatment maintenance, Hispanic/Latino and European-American youths also responded more similarly than differently, albeit with some variations within specific assessment points in questionnaire data. CONCLUSIONS: Exposure-based CBT for phobic and anxiety disorders produced positive treatment gains and maintenance for Hispanic/Latino youths who participated in the trials. The treatment response that can be expected is generally similar (i.e., favorable) and equivalent to that found with European-American youths based on all the available indices of change.
Authors: Jerome H Taylor; Eli R Lebowitz; Ewgeni Jakubovski; Catherine G Coughlin; Wendy K Silverman; Michael H Bloch Journal: J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol Date: 2017-09-28
Authors: Armando A Pina; Nancy A Gonzales; Gina L Mazza; Heather J Gunn; Lindsay E Holly; Ryan D Stoll; Julia Parker; Amanda Chiapa; Henry Wynne; Jenn-Yun Tein Journal: Prev Sci Date: 2020-05
Authors: Jeremy W Pettit; Yasmin Rey; Michele Bechor; Raquel Melendez; Daniella Vaclavik; Victor Buitron; Yair Bar-Haim; Daniel S Pine; Wendy K Silverman Journal: J Anxiety Disord Date: 2017-08-29
Authors: Nicole E Caporino; Kendra L Read; Nina Shiffrin; Cara Settipani; Philip C Kendall; Scott N Compton; Joel Sherrill; John Piacentini; John Walkup; Golda Ginsburg; Courtney Keeton; Boris Birmaher; Dara Sakolsky; Elizabeth Gosch; Anne M Albano Journal: J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol Date: 2015-10-14