| Title: |
Effectiveness of a web-based intervention to prevent anxiety in the children of parents with anxiety: Protocol for a randomized controlled trial |
| Authors: |
Dunn, Abigail; Alvarez, James; Arbon, Amy; Bremner, Stephen; Elsby-Pearson, Chloe; Emsley, Richard; Jones, Christopher; Lawrence, Peter; Lester, Kathryn J; Majdandžić, Mirjana; Morson, Natalie; Perry, Nicky; Simner, Julia; Thomson, Abigail; Cartwright-Hatton, Sam |
| Publication Year: |
2022 |
| Collection: |
University of Southampton: e-Prints Soton |
| Description: |
Background: Anxiety is the most common childhood mental health condition and is associated with impaired child outcomes, including increased risk of mental health difficulties in adulthood. Anxiety runs in families: when a parent has anxiety, their child has a 50% higher chance of developing it themselves. Environmental factors are predominant in the intergenerational transmission of anxiety and, of these, parenting processes play a major role. Interventions that target parents to support them to limit the impact of any anxiogenic parenting behaviors are associated with reduced anxiety in their children. A brief UK-based group intervention delivered to parents within the UK National Health Service led to a 16% reduction in children meeting the criteria for an anxiety disorder. However, this intervention is not widely accessible. To widen access, a 9-module web-based version of this intervention has been developed. This course comprises psychoeducation and home practice delivered through text, video, animations, and practice tasks. Objective: This study seeks to evaluate the feasibility of delivering this web-based intervention and assess its effectiveness in reducing child anxiety symptoms. Methods: This is the protocol for a randomized controlled trial (RCT) of a community sample of 1754 parents with self-identified high levels of anxiety with a child aged 2-11 years. Parents in the intervention arm will receive access to the web-based course, which they undertake at a self-determined rate. The control arm receives no intervention. Follow-up data collection is at months 6 and months 9-21. Intention-to-treat analysis will be conducted on outcomes including child anxiety, child mental health symptoms, and well-being; parental anxiety and well-being; and parenting behaviors. Results: Funding was received in April 2020, and recruitment started in February 2021 and is projected to end in October 2022. A total of 1350 participants have been recruited as of May 2022. Conclusions: The results of this RCT will provide ... |
| Document Type: |
article in journal/newspaper |
| File Description: |
text |
| Language: |
English |
| Relation: |
https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/473829/1/PDF.pdf; Dunn, Abigail, Alvarez, James, Arbon, Amy, Bremner, Stephen, Elsby-Pearson, Chloe, Emsley, Richard, Jones, Christopher, Lawrence, Peter, Lester, Kathryn J, Majdandžić, Mirjana, Morson, Natalie, Perry, Nicky, Simner, Julia, Thomson, Abigail and Cartwright-Hatton, Sam (2022) Effectiveness of a web-based intervention to prevent anxiety in the children of parents with anxiety: Protocol for a randomized controlled trial. JMIR Research Protocols, 11 (11), [e40707]. (doi:10.2196/40707 ). |
| Availability: |
https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/473829/; https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/473829/1/PDF.pdf |
| Rights: |
cc_by_4 |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.B5C22F3C |
| Database: |
BASE |