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Self-help guided by a lay provider for Generalized Anxiety Disorder

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Waitlist Available

Research Sponsored by Laval University

Eligibility Criteria Checklist

Specific guidelines that determine who can or cannot participate in a clinical trial

Must have

Be older than 18 years old

Timeline

Screening 3 weeks

Treatment Varies

Follow Up baseline, post treatment (15 weeks), 6 months and 12 months follow-up.

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Study Summary

This trial is testing whether psychological self-help guided by a lay provider is an effective treatment for Generalized Anxiety Disorder in older adults, compared to waiting to receive treatment.

Eligible Conditions

Generalized Anxiety Disorder

Timeline

Screening ~ 3 weeks3 visits

Treatment ~ Varies

Follow Up ~ baseline, post treatment (15 weeks), 6 months and 12 months follow-up.

Screening ~ 3 weeks

Treatment ~ Varies

Follow Up ~baseline, post treatment (15 weeks), 6 months and 12 months follow-up.

This trial's timeline: 3 weeks for screening, Varies for treatment, and baseline, post treatment (15 weeks), 6 months and 12 months follow-up. for reporting.

Treatment Details

Study Objectives

Outcome measures can provide a clearer picture of what you can expect from a treatment.

Primary outcome measures

Change in GAD-7

Change in Penn State Worry Questionnaire

Secondary outcome measures

Change in Cognitive Avoidance Questionnaire

Change in GAD diagnosis

Change in Geriatric Anxiety Inventory

+7 more

Other outcome measures

Evaluation of treatment by participants

Nine items relating to COVID-19

Questionnaire of behavioral manifestations linked to anxiety

Trial Design

2Treatment groups

Experimental Treatment

Group I: Waiting list where participants wait for delayed treatmentExperimental Treatment2 Interventions

Group II: Self-help guided by a lay providerExperimental Treatment1 Intervention

Treatment

First Studied

Drug Approval Stage

How many patients have taken this drug

Self-help guided by a lay provider

2019

N/A

~150

Waiting list where participants wait for delayed treatment

2019

N/A

~150

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Who is running the clinical trial?

Laval UniversityLead Sponsor

417 Previous Clinical Trials

172,122 Total Patients Enrolled

1 Trials studying Generalized Anxiety Disorder

3,610 Patients Enrolled for Generalized Anxiety Disorder

Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)OTHER_GOV

1,343 Previous Clinical Trials

26,452,943 Total Patients Enrolled

9 Trials studying Generalized Anxiety Disorder

4,763 Patients Enrolled for Generalized Anxiety Disorder

CIUSSS du Centre-Sud-de-l'Île-MontréalUNKNOWN

Frequently Asked Questions

These questions and answers are submitted by anonymous patients, and have not been verified by our internal team.

Is enrollment for this trial still ongoing?

"Unfortunately, the posted data on clinicaltrials.gov reveals that this research project is not presently recruiting patients; however, there are currently 414 other trials actively seeking participants. This trial was first listed on March 11th 2019 and last modified January 3rd 2022."

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What are the intended outcomes of this experiment?

"Across a Baseline, post-treatment (15 weeks), 6 months, and 12 months follow-up time frame, this trial's primary goal is to measure Generalized Anxiety Disorder 7 (GAD-7). Secondary measures include the Why Worry Questionnaire (25 items rated on a 1 to 5 scale with higher scores associated with more use of worrying as an effective tool), Intolerance to Uncertainty Inventory (27 items on a 1 to 5 scale where higher totals suggest greater aversion towards uncertainty), and Cognitive Avoidance Questionnaire (25 questions ranked from 1 - 5 indicating tendencies for cognitive avoidance)."

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Recent research and studies

BMC GeriatricsJournal

Self-help Guided by Trained Lay Providers for Generalized Anxiety Disorder in Older Adults: Study Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial

Landreville, Philippe, Patrick Gosselin, Sébastien Grenier, and Pierre-Hugues Carmichael. 2021. “Self-help Guided by Trained Lay Providers for Generalized Anxiety Disorder in Older Adults: Study Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial”. BMC Geriatrics. Springer Science and Business Media LLC. doi:10.1186/s12877-021-02221-x.

clinicaltrials.govStudy

Self-help Guided by Lay Providers for Anxiety in Older Adults

Philippe Landreville 2019. "Self-help Guided by Lay Providers for Anxiety in Older Adults". ClinicalTrials.gov. https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03768544.