View clinical trials related to Anxiety Disorders.
Filter by:The objective of this experimental study is to determine if the application of a nursing educational intervention reduces the anxiety of patients who are going to undergo treatment in the hyperbaric chamber. The researchers will compare the nursing educational intervention with the usual practice that is currently carried out in the unit for patients who are going to begin treatment in the hyperbaric chamber. Participants will: - Receive explanatory information through a camera triptych when the treatment is indicated. - Come half an hour before the first session to receive a nursing educational intervention, with audiovisual support, on the operation of the camera.
Generalized anxiety disorder is a mental health disorder characterized by feelings of tension and worry with physical symptoms including increased blood pressure. Approximately 20% of US adults reported an anxiety disorder in the past year and an estimated 31% of US adults reported anxiety at some time in their lives. Anxiety can be experienced throughout one's life and levels of anxiety can increase with stressful life events, physical health conditions, and medication use. Chronic, untreated anxiety has been linked to headaches, dizziness, depression, high blood pressure, heart disease, digestive disorders, and a worsened immune system - greatly impacting one's overall quality of life (QOL). Anxiety and depression are highly comorbid, with approximately 50-60% of those with anxiety symptoms also experiencing depression symptoms. Experiencing these disorders and symptoms comorbidly may further worsen one's mental health and overall QOL. Untreated, chronic depression can heighten symptoms of depression leading to increased risk of heart disease, sleep disruptions, weight gain/loss, a weakened immune system, physical pains, and suicide attempts. Anxiety and depression are commonly treated using various psychotherapeutic techniques including cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and acceptance and commitment therapy techniques administered by a licensed therapist. However, therapy has many barriers to treatment including insurance not covering treatments, overall treatment cost, unsure where to seek treatment/no access to a therapist, and therapy being unavailable and inconvenient due to scheduling during the workday. As such, app-based mental health tools have increased in popularity to improve access and affordability to effective mental health treatments. The purpose of the study is to examine the effectiveness of a guided anxiety/depression app-based program by Headspace, which uses CBT with mindfulness to improve anxiety and depression symptoms in a population with elevated baseline anxiety and/or depression. The study will employ a 2-arm app-based intervention involving 1 active intervention and a waitlist control for a duration of 3 weeks, followed by a 3-week follow-up assessment.
This prospective, randomised, double-blinded cross-over study aims to compare the effectiveness of auricular acupuncture (AA) with placebo sham acupuncture (PSA) in reducing dental anxiety, pain perception and physiological responses to stress and anxiety among adolescents during orthodontic extractions. Adolescents aged between 10-19 years old who are undergoing orthodontic treatments requiring bilateral premolar extractions will be invited to complete a validated questionnaire to record their dental anxiety level, oral health knowledge, attitudes, practices, demographic and socio-economic factors. During orthodontic extractions, physiological responses including heart rate and oxygen saturation will be measured with a fingertip pulse oximeter throughout the process. The participants will be allocated randomly to one of the two groups in the study. Group 1-- auricular acupuncture in their first orthodontic extraction visit and placebo sham acupuncture in their second orthodontic extraction visit. Group 2-placebo sham acupuncture in their first orthodontic extraction visit and auricular acupuncture their second orthodontic extraction visit. Both acupuncture interventions will be carried out by a Hong Kong registered Chinese medical practitioner. The acupuncture needles are kept in place for 20 minutes to exert its effect before the dental extraction. Placebo sham acupuncture will not cause any harm, but the acupuncture points have no reported effect on stress relief. The extraction of premolars will be performed by a Hong Kong registered dentist. Local anesthesia is injected to numb the respective site, then the premolar will be removed with forceps, followed by stopping the bleeding by biting firmly on gauze.
Few alternatives to addictive medical treatment exists for persons with severe mental health problems (SMHP) and anxiety, often connected to high risk of suicide. Access to effective interventions that depart in individuals' needs to cope with anxiety in everyday life is crucial to provide and desperately warranted by service users. Service users are often unaware of sensory needs, connected to anxiety outburst. The Sensory Awareness Program (SAP) is a group-based self-management intervention of 10 weeks developed to meet complex needs of regulating anxiety and related self-destructive behaviors. SAP stems from theories on sensory modulation and is an approach to manage physiological arousal associated with anxiety through self-regulated sensory-based coping strategies. International research show that sensory modulation is effective both as a method to reduce anxiety and thus restraint in acute mental health services (MHS), and also to empower users. However, much research to date focus on using sensory strategies within wards. International research and pre-studies of testing the SAP in outpatient MHS indicate that it is a promising self-management intervention to support everyday life. Earlier studies further show that users' unawareness of sensory needs triggers anxiety, and that anxiety itself is the main contributing factor for disrupting everyday life. Also, staff acknowledge sensory modulation but lack knowledge on whether programs such as SAP is effective and possible to implement. The overall aim is to investigate the effectiveness of SAP as compared to treatment as usual (TAU) among 200 outpatients. The investigators hypothesize that SAP will be more effective than TAU in terms of reduced anxiety (primary outcome) at three months follow-up. Secondary clinical and personal recovery outcomes post intervention and at three and six months follow up will also be targeted and assumed to be in favour of the SAP group. The implementation process of the SAP will also be explored.
A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study assessing the impact of health and wellness products on feelings of anxiety and related health outcomes
The present study is a randomized controlled trial that will evaluate the effect of combining two treatment components (i.e., cognitive restructuring and detached mindfulness) drawn from cognitive behavioral therapies (CBTs) that are often combined in clinical practice. However, knowledge about the effect of combining these treatment components is lacking. Therefore, this study aims to explore single, combined, and sequencing effects of these two treatment components in patients with depression and/or anxiety disorders. Furthermore, the study aims to explore possible demographic and clinical moderators of the effects to address the question of what works for whom.
Preoperative anxiety is characterized by subjective emotions such as irritability, irritability, sadness, and unhappiness. Studies have shown that preoperative anxiety negatively affects children both psychologically and physiologically. Preoperative anxiety occurs in 60-80% of children undergoing anesthesia and surgery and is associated with undesirable consequences such as nightmares, separation anxiety, eating disorders, negative behavioral changes such as increased fear of doctors, increased need for analgesics. The aim of this study is to evaluate the preoperative and pre-sedation anxiety levels in pediatric patients by explaining the peroperative process to the patients with drawings.
Study and evaluate the effectiveness of virtual reality in pain management.
This study will be conducted to determine the effect of daily Tetradesmus Dimorphus by Tetrasol consumption in supporting gut health using assessments of gastrointestinal symptoms (GSRS) and bowel habits (BSS) as primary outcome measures. The investigators also intend to explore fecal and blood biomarkers of intestinal permeability/function, determination of anxiety and stress levels through both validated assessments and saliva and blood biomarkers, establishment of intervention safety and tolerability through comprehensive metabolic panels and overall compliance, explore the effects of the intervention on inflammation and acute stress (Cold Presser Test), blood lipid profiles, and gut microbiota composition as secondary outcomes.
The transdiagnostic approach argues that the common features are needed to be taken into account [e.g. distress intolerance (DI), intolerance of uncertainty (IU), worry)] underlying emotional disorders rather than evaluating them separately due to the fact that the dissection of anxiety disorders has increased with each emerging version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), in which the classification of anxiety disorders resulted in an increased number of intervention protocols for each disorder. This also caused an increase of comorbidity among anxiety disorders. Transdiagnostic approach offers a unified protocol (UP) for strengthening the common features, and thereby both preventing the emergence of emotional disorders or intervening the symptom severity of emotional disorders, which can be applied to different types of emotional disorders. The main aim of this study is to develop a UP which is planned to be applied as a group therapy. The UP will include interventions developing the levels of common transdiagnostic features (DI, IU and worry). The study's second aim is to investigate the effect of the developed UP on DI, IU and worry. The third one is to search the effect of the developed UP on symptom severity levels of anxiety disorders. Fourthly, this study will search if the levels of transdiagnostic common features (DI, IU and worry) will predict the levels of symptom severity of anxiety disorders'.