Comorbidity and Internet-Delivered Transdiagnostic Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Anxiety Disorders

Cognitive Behaviour Therapy

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 180-192

  Johnston, Luke ^a   Titov, Nickolai ^a   Andrews, Gavin ^b   Dear, Blake F ^a   Spence, Jay ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

anxiety; comorbidity; Internet; Internet delivered cognitive behavioural therapy; randomised controlled trial; transdiagnostic; treatment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED THERAPY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNET; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TELECONSULTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY DISORDERS; COGNITIVE THERAPY; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNET; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REMOTE CONSULTATION; THERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84883489240     PISSN: 16506073     EISSN: 16512316     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/16506073.2012.753108     Document Type: Article

References (53)

1. Allen, L., White, K., Barlow, D., Shear, M., Gorman, J. and Woods, S. 2010. Cognitive-behavior therapy (CBT) for panic disorder: Relationship of anxiety and depression comorbidity with treatment outcome. Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment, 32 (2): 185 - 192.
2. American Psychiatric Association. 2000. Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (text revision), 4th ed., Washington: American Psychiatric Association.
3. Andersson, G., Estling, F., Jakobsson, E., Cuijpers, P. and Carlbring, P. 2011. Can the patient decide which modules to endorse? An open trial of tailored Internet treatment of anxiety disorders. Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, 40 (1): 57 - 64.
4. Andrews, G., Cuijpers, P., Craske, M., McEvoy, P. and Titov, N. 2010. Computer therapy for the anxiety and depressive disorders is effective, acceptable and practical health care: A meta-analysis. PLoS One, 5 (10): e13196 doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0013196
5. Andrews, G., Slade, T. and Issakidis, C. 2002. Deconstructing current comorbidity: Data from the Australian National Survey of Mental Health and Well-Being. The British Journal of Psychiatry, 181 (4): 306 - 314.
6. Barlow, D., Allen, L. and Choate, M. 2004. Toward a unified treatment for emotional disorders. Behavior Therapy, 35 (2): 205 - 230.
7. Brown, T., Antony, M. and Barlow, D. 1992. Psychometric properties of the Penn State Worry Questionnaire in a clinical anxiety disorders sample. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 30 (1): 33 - 37.
8. Burgess, P., Pirkis, J., Slade, T., Johnston, A., Meadows, G. and Gunn, J. 2009. Service use for mental health problems: Findings from the 2007 National Survey of Mental Health and Wellbeing. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 43 (7): 615 - 623.
9. Costa, P. and McCrae, R. 1985. The NEO personality inventory manual, Odessa: Psychological Assessment Resources.
10. Craske, M., Stein, M., Sullivan, G., Sherbourne, C., Bystritsky, A., Rose, R., and Roy-Byrne, P. 2011. Disorder-specific impact of coordinated anxiety learning and management treatment for anxiety disorders in primary care. Archives of General Psychiatry, 68 (4): 378 - 388.
11. Cuijpers, P., Marks, I., van Straten, A., Cavanagh, K., Gega, L. and Andersson, G. 2009. Computer-aided psychotherapy for anxiety disorders: A meta-analytic review. Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, 38 (2): 66 - 82.
12. Cuijpers, P., Van Straten, A. and Donker, M. 2005. Personality traits of patients with mood and anxiety disorders. Psychiatry Research, 133 (2-3): 229 - 237.
13. Davis, L., Barlow, D. and Smith, L. 2010. Comorbidity and the treatment of principal anxiety disorders in a naturalistic sample. Behavior Therapy, 41 (3): 296 - 305.
14. Dear, B., Titov, N., Schwencke, G., Andrews, G., Johnston, L., Craske, M. and McEvoy, P. 2011. An open trial of a brief transdiagnostic Internet treatment for anxiety and depression. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 49 (12): 830 - 837.
15. Dear, B., Titov, N., Sunderland, M., McMillan, D., Anderson, T., Lorian, C. and Robinson, E. 2011. Psychometric comparison of the GAD-7 and the PSWQ for measure response during treatment of generalised anxiety disorder. Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, 40: 216 - 227.
16. Ehrenreich, J., Goldstein, C., Wright, L. and Barlow, D. 2009. Development of a unified protocol for the treatment of emotional disorders in youth. Child and Family Behavior Therapy, 31 (1): 20 - 37.
17. Emmanuel, J., Simmonds, S. and Tyrer, P. 1998. Systematic review of the outcome of anxiety and depressive disorders. British Journal of Psychiatry, 173 (Suppl. 34): 35 - 41.
18. Erickson, D., Janeck, A. and Tallman, K. 2009. Transdiagnostic group CBT for anxiety: Clinical experience and practical advice. Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy, 23 (1): 34 - 43.
19. Farchione, T., Fairholme, C., Ellard, K., Boisseau, C., Thompson-Hollands, J., Carl, J., and Barlow, D. 2012. Unified protocol for transdiagnostic treatment of emotional disorders: A randomized controlled trial. Behavior Therapy, 43: 666 - 678.
20. Green, B., Krupnick, J., Chung, J., Siddique, J., Krause, E. D., Revicki, D., and Miranda, J. 2006. Impact of PTSD comorbidity on one-year outcomes in a depression trial. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 62: 815 - 835.
21. Houck, P., Spiegel, D., Shear, M. and Rucci, P. 2002. Reliability of the self-report version of the panic disorder severity scale. Depression and Anxiety, 15 (4): 183 - 185.
22. Johnston, L., Titov, N., Andrews, G., Spence, J. and Dear, B. 2011. A RCT of a transdiagnostic Internet-delivered treatment for three anxiety disorders: Examination of support roles and disorder-specific outcomes. PLoS One, 6 (11): e28079 doi:28010.21371/journal.pone.0028079
23. Kazdin, A. 2007. Mediators and mechanisms of change in psychotherapy research. Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, 3 (1): 1 - 27.
24. Kessler, R., Chiu, W., Demler, O. and Walters, E. 2005. Prevalence, severity, and comorbidity of 12-month DSM-IV disorders in the National Comorbidity Survey Replication. Archives of General Psychiatry, 62 (6): 617 - 627.
25. Kroenke, K., Spitzer, R. and Williams, J. 2001. The PHQ-9: Validity of a brief depression severity measure. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 16 (9): 606 - 613.
26. Kroenke, K., Spitzer, R., Williams, J. and Löwe, B. 2010. The patient health questionnaire somatic, anxiety, and depressive symptom scales: A systematic review. General Hospital Psychiatry, 32 (4): 345 - 359.
27. Lecrubier, Y., Sheehan, D., Weiller, E., Amorim, P., Bonora, I., Sheehan, K., and Dunbar, G. 1997. The Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview (MINI). A short diagnostic structured interview: Reliability and validity according to the CIDI. European Psychiatry, 12 (5): 224 - 231.
28. Leon, A., Olfson, M., Portera, L., Farber, L. and Sheehan, D. 1997. Assessing psychiatric impairment in primary care with the Sheehan disability scale. International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine, 27 (2): 93 - 105.
29. Löwe, B., Decker, O., Muller, S., Brahler, E., Schellberg, D., Herzog, W. and Herzberg, P. 2008. Validation and standardization of the generalized anxiety disorder screener (GAD-7) in the general population. Medical Care, 46 (3): 266 - 274.
30. Mansell, W., Harvey, A., Watkins, E. and Shafran, R. 2009. Conceptual foundations of the transdiagnostic approach to CBT. Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy, 23 (1): 6 - 19.
31. Mattick, R. and Clarke, J. 1998. Development and validation of measures of social phobia scrutiny fear and social interaction anxiety. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 36 (4): 455 - 470.
32. McEvoy, P. and Nathan, P. 2007. Effectiveness of cognitive behavior therapy for diagnostically heterogeneous groups: A benchmarking study. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 75 (2): 344 - 350.
33. McEvoy, P., Nathan, P. and Norton, P. 2009. Efficacy of transdiagnostic treatments: A review of published outcome studies and future research directions. Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy, 23 (1): 20 - 33.
34. Meyer, T., Miller, M., Metzger, R. and Borkovec, T. 1990. Development and validation of the Penn State Worry Questionnaire. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 28 (6): 487 - 495.
35. Newman, M., Przeworski, A., Fisher, A. and Borkovec, T. 2010. Diagnostic comorbidity in adults with generalized anxiety disorder: Impact of comorbidity on psychotherapy outcome and impact of psychotherapy on comorbid diagnoses. Behavior Therapy, 41 (1): 59 - 72.
36. Norton, P. 2012. A randomized clinical trial of transdiagnostic cognitive-behavioral treatments for anxiety disorder by comparison to relaxation training. Behavior Therapy, 43: 506 - 517.
37. Norton, P., Hayes, S. and Springer, J. 2008. Transdiagnostic cognitive-behavioral group therapy for anxiety: Outcome and process. International Journal of Cognitive Therapy, 1: 266 - 279.
38. Norton, P., Temple, S. and Pettit, J. 2008. Suicidal ideation and anxiety disorders: Elevated risk or artifact of negative affect and comorbid depression?. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 39 (4): 515 - 525.
39. Olatunji, B., Cisler, J. and Tolin, D. 2010. A meta-analysis of the influence of comorbidity on treatment outcome in the anxiety disorders. Clinical Psychology Review, 30 (6): 642 - 654.
40. Peters, L., Sunderland, M., Andrews, G., Rapee, R. and Mattick, R. 2011. Development of a short form social interaction anxiety (SIAS) and social phobia scale (SPS) using nonparametric item response theory: The SIAS-6 and the SPS-6. Psychological Assessment, 24: 66 - 76.
41. Richards, D. and Suckling, R. 2009. Improving access to psychological therapies: Phase IV prospective cohort study. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 48 (4): 377 - 396.
42. Robinson, E., Titov, N., Andrews, G., McIntyre, K., Schwencke, G. and Solley, K. 2010. Internet treatment for generalized anxiety disorder: A randomized controlled trial comparing clinician vs. technician assistance. PLoS One, 5 (6): e10942 doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0010942
43. Sheehan, D. 1983. The anxiety disease, New York: Scribner.
44. Sheehan, D., Lecrubier, Y., Sheehan, K., Amorim, P., Janavs, J., Weiller, E., and Dunbar, G. 1998. The Mini-International Neuropsychiatric Interview (M.I.N.I.): The development and validation of a structured diagnostic psychiatric interview for DSM-IV and ICD-10. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 59 (Suppl. 20): 22 - 33.
45. Spinhoven, P., de Rooij, M., Heiser, W., Smit, J. and Penninx, B. 2009. The role of personality in comorbidity among anxiety and depressive disorders in primary care and specialty care: A cross-sectional analysis. General Hospital Psychiatry, 31 (5): 470 - 477.
46. Spitzer, R., Kroenke, K., Williams, J. and Löwe, B. 2006. A brief measure for assessing generalized anxiety disorder: The GAD-7. Archives of Internal Medicine, 166 (10): 1092 - 1097.
47. Titov, N. 2011. Internet-delivered psychotherapy for depression in adults. Current Opinion in Psychiatry, 24 (1): 18 - 23.
48. Titov, N., Andrews, G., Johnston, L., Robinson, E. and Spence, J. 2010. Transdiagnostic Internet treatment for anxiety disorders: A randomized controlled trial. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 48 (9): 890 - 899.
49. Titov, N., Andrews, G., Schwencke, G., Solley, K., Johnston, L. and Robinson, E. 2009. An RCT comparing effect of two types of support on severity of symptoms for people completing Internet-based cognitive behaviour therapy for social phobia. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 43 (10): 920 - 926.
50. Titov, N., Dear, B., McMillan, D., Anderson, T. and Zou, J. 2011. Psychometric comparison of the PHQ-9 and BDI-II for measuring response during Internet treatment of depression. Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, 40: 126 - 136.
51. Titov, N., Dear, B., Schwencke, G., Andrews, G., Johnston, L., Craske, M. and McEvoy, P. 2011. Transdiagnostic Internet treatment for anxiety and depression: A randomised controlled trial. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 49: 441 - 452.
52. Tsao, J., Mystkowski, J., Zucker, B. and Craske, M. 2005. Impact of cognitive-behavioral therapy for panic disorder on comorbidity: A controlled investigation. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 43 (7): 959 - 970.
53. Wims, E., Titov, N., Andrews, G. and Choi, I. 2010. Clinician-assisted Internet-based treatment is effective for panic: A randomized controlled trial. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 44 (7): 599 - 607.