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Tranquil Moments II-CBT vs. Yoga for Worry

ClinicalTrials.gov ID: NCT02968238

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Official title

Cognitive-behavioral Therapy Versus Yoga for the Treatment of Worry in Anxious Older Adults: A Randomized Preference Trial

Brief summary

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Anxiety disorders are the most prevalent psychiatric disorders. Among older adults, anxiety is more common that depression, yet research on the nature and treatment of anxiety has lagged far behind that of depression. The investigators' work has demonstrated that CBT is superior to enhanced usual care as well as supportive therapy in improving worry, depressive symptoms, and sleep, and these improvements are maintained for up to 1 year upon completing treatment. Research demonstrates that yoga reduces anxiety symptoms and the investigators' own work demonstrates that yoga improves sleep. However, no one has conducted a comparative effectiveness trial of CBT and yoga for treating worry in older adults. In fact, there are very few comparative effectiveness trials for treating late-life anxiety. Thus, clinicians are unable to provide an informed recommendation of one treatment over the other. The investigators propose a two-stage randomized preference trial comparing 1) cognitive-behavioral therapy with 2) yoga for the treatment of worry in a sample of older adults. Participants will be randomized to either the preference group (participants choose the treatment) or to the random group (participants are randomized to 1 of the 2 treatments). This study design allows for the calculation of traditional treatment effects (differences in outcomes between participants randomized to either CBT or yoga), selection effects (differences in outcomes between participants who choose CBT and those who choose yoga), and preference effects (differences in outcomes between participants who choose their treatment and those who are randomized to treatment).

Study identification

NCT ID
NCT02968238
Recruitment status
Completed
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Not applicable
Enrollment
500 participants

Conditions and interventions

Conditions

Interventions

Behavioral

Eligibility (public fields only)

Age range
60 Years and older
Sex
All
Healthy volunteers
Accepts healthy volunteers

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Study timeline

Start date
Apr 30, 2017
Primary completion
Apr 21, 2019
Completion
Aug 27, 2019
Last update posted
May 11, 2020

2017 – 2019

United States locations

U.S. sites
1
U.S. states
1
U.S. cities
1
Facility City State ZIP Site status
Wake Forest University Health Sciences Winston-Salem North Carolina 27157

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