Improved treatment of comorbid anxiety and depression in adolescents: A randomised controlled trial

Funded Activity Summary

Anxiety and depression are serious mental disorders that affect large numbers of children and adolescents in our community. In particular, young people with both anxiety and depression may experience severe difficulties including poor physical health, social and interpersonal problems, academic problems, drug and alcohol problems, long-term adjustment problems and suicidal behaviour. Although a range of very effective treatments have been developed to treat anxiety and depression separately, there is very little work on the treatment of young people with both these problems. Some studies suggest that youth with both anxiety and depression together do worse in currently available treatments, compared to their peers with only a single condition. The current grant seeks to test whether a new treatment addressing both anxiety and depression concurrently, is superior to standard treatments for adolescents experiencing both these emotional problems. It is predicted that the addition of extra components to standard treatments, will result in considerably greater improvements in these more complex cases.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2004

End Date: 01-01-2006

Funding Scheme: NHMRC Project Grants

Funding Amount: $275,250.00

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Financial economics

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Other Keywords

adolescent health and well-being | adolescents | anxiety, depression | comorbidity | psychological disorders | psychopathology | therapy

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