Objective: To examine the impact of treatment outcome and treatment condition (Cognitive-behavioral therapy, CBT; Sertraline, SRT; COMB, CBT and SRT; Placebo) for youth treated for anxiety disorders on global and domain-specific functioning across a 3 to 12 year, naturalistic follow-up. Method: A subset (319) of 488 families from the Child/Adolescent Anxiety Multimodal Study (CAMS; Walkup et al., 2008) participated in an average of 3.38 assessments during the follow-up period. All youth met criteria for a principal anxiety disorder pretreatment. Growth curve modeling examined the impact of treatment outcomes (response/remission) and treatment condition on global functioning, global and domain- specific impairment, and life satisfaction across the follow-up period. Logistic regression explored the impact of treatment response and condition on low frequency events (arrests/convictions) and educational achievement (high school graduation/college enrollment). Results: Growth curve analyses revealed that treatment responders/remitters demonstrated better global functioning, increased life satisfaction, and decreased overall impairment at their first follow-up assessment (growth curve mean intercept). The positive effect of treatment response on life satisfaction, but not global functioning or overall impairment, attenuated across the follow-up period. Treatment response also predicted decreased academic impairment at first follow-up. Participants in the COMB condition demonstrated improved functional trajectories with regards to family life and academic grade-point average. CBT participants demonstrated a greater decline in overall impairment and problems with self-care/independence across the follow-up. Treatment response and condition did not predict legal outcomes, school attendance, high school graduation, college attendance, occupational outcomes, or social/peer relationships. Conclusion: Response to early intervention is associated with improved overall functioning, as well as functioning within specific domains (academics) 3 to 12 years posttreatment. Treatment type differentially predicted functional trajectories. Findings support the positive impact of pediatric anxiety treatment on functioning during adolescence and emerging adulthood. / Psychology
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TEMPLE/oai:scholarshare.temple.edu:20.500.12613/2492 |
| Date | January 2017 |
| Creators | Swan, Anna Josephine |
| Contributors | Kendall, Philip C., Alloy, Lauren B., Olino, Thomas, Heimberg, Richard G., Giovannetti, Tania, Drabick, Deborah A. |
| Publisher | Temple University. Libraries |
| Source Sets | Temple University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis/Dissertation, Text |
| Format | 98 pages |
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| Relation | http://dx.doi.org/10.34944/dspace/2474, Theses and Dissertations |
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