Sruthi Sreekumar
Clinical Psychology
September 2024
The effectiveness of Cognitive-Behavioral Interventions (CBI) in lowering anxiety in children is assessed in this study, with an emphasis on how age affects the intervention's effectiveness. Using a pre-post experimental design and comparative analysis across age groups, a mixed-methods approach was employed. Ten people were included in the study, with half going into an experimental group that received CBI and the other half being a control group. Standardized anxiety evaluation instruments were used to gather data at the six-month follow-up, post-intervention, and pre-intervention phases. The percentages of anxiety in the experimental group ranged from 31.0% to 40.0%, suggesting that there were notable reductions in anxiety. The biggest improvements were shown in younger children (ages 9–10), however older and teenage children also benefited, albeit less so. The results demonstrate CBI's general efficacy and imply that younger children benefit most from the intervention. The study emphasizes how crucial it is to design interventions specifically for various age groups and highlights the need for more studies with bigger sample sizes and longer follow-up times to examine the long-term effectiveness of CBI.
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