Providing Tools for Effective Care and Treatment of Anxiety Disorders

Summary

PROTECT-AD is a cognitive behavioral treatment study involving highly qualified psychotherapeutic centers at seven German universities.

It is our goal to further investigate and optimize existing effective treatments of anxiety disorders. In order to achieve this, the investigators want to investigate the effect of extinction learning in an "intensified" psychological intervention on treatment outcome in adults and children with anxiety disorders.

The intensified psychological intervention is characterized by a higher number of exposure trials over a short time period. In the control condition the exposure trials take place in a weekly interval, analog to standard care.

Conditions

• Panic Disorder
• Agoraphobia
• Specific Phobias
• Social Anxiety Disorder

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Intensified psychological intervention

12 sessions of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy a 100 minutes, over the course of 6 weeks (2 sessions per week/week 1 and 2, 3 sessions per week/week 3 und 4, 1 session per week/week 5 and 6)

BEHAVIORAL

Standard intervention

12 sessions of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy a 100 minutes, over the course of 10 weeks (2 sessions per week/week 1 and 2, 1 session per week/week 3 to 10)

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Ruhr University of Bochum

  collaborator OTHER

• University Medicine Greifswald

  collaborator OTHER

• Charite University, Berlin, Germany

  collaborator OTHER

• University of Wuerzburg

  collaborator OTHER

• Philipps University Marburg

  collaborator OTHER

• Wuerzburg University Hospital

  collaborator OTHER

• Universität Münster

  collaborator OTHER

• Technische Universität Dresden

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Hans-Ulrich Wittchen, Ph.D. · Technische Universität Dresden

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

NONE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

15 Years

Max Age

70 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2015-12-12

Primary Completion

2019-07-24

Completion

2019-07-24

Countries

• Germany

Study Locations