title: A Meta-Analysis of Transdiagnostic Cognitive Behavioural Therapy in the Treatment of Child and Young Person Anxiety Disorders.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Previous meta-analyses of cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) for children and young people with anxiety disorders have not considered the efficacy of transdiagnostic CBT for the remission of childhood anxiety.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To provide a meta-analysis on the efficacy of transdiagnostic CBT for children and young people with anxiety disorders.
  
  
  METHODS
  The analysis included randomized controlled trials using transdiagnostic CBT for children and young people formally diagnosed with an anxiety disorder. An electronic search was conducted using the following databases: ASSIA, Cochrane Controlled Trials Register, Current Controlled Trials, Medline, PsycArticles, PsychInfo, and Web of Knowledge. The search terms included "anxiety disorder(s)", "anxi*", "cognitive behavio*, "CBT", "child*", "children", "paediatric", "adolescent(s)", "adolescence", "youth" and "young pe*". The studies identified from this search were screened against the inclusion and exclusion criteria, and 20 studies were identified as appropriate for inclusion in the current meta-analysis. Pre- and posttreatment (or control period) data were used for analysis.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Findings indicated significantly greater odds of anxiety remission from pre- to posttreatment for those engaged in the transdiagnostic CBT intervention compared with those in the control group, with children in the treatment condition 9.15 times more likely to recover from their anxiety diagnosis than children in the control group. Risk of bias was not correlated with study effect sizes.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Transdiagnostic CBT seems effective in reducing symptoms of anxiety in children and young people. Further research is required to investigate the efficacy of CBT for children under the age of 6.
authors: University of Sussex,Brighton,UK.
authors: Donna L
authors: DL
authors: Ewing
authors: East London Consortium of Educational Psychologists,London,UK.
authors: Jeremy J
authors: JJ
authors: Monsen
authors: University of Sussex,Brighton,UK.
authors: Ellen J
authors: EJ
authors: Thompson
authors: University of Sussex,Brighton,UK.
authors: Sam
authors: S
authors: Cartwright-Hatton
authors: University of Sussex,Brighton,UK.
authors: Andy
authors: A
authors: Field
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000367:Age Factors; D001008:Anxiety Disorders / Q000628:therapy*; D002648:Child; D015928:Cognitive Behavioral Therapy / Q000379:methods* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D016032:Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic
keywords: Meta-analysis; anxiety; children; cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT)