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Register: Netherlands Trial Register
Last refreshed on: 28 April 2013
Main ID:  NTR965
Date of registration: 03/05/2007
Primary sponsor: Accare, Division University Center for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Public title: Prevention of Adolescent Social and Test Anxiety.
Scientific title: Fear of negative evaluation in social and test anxiety, a RCT testing two easily accessible interventions. - PASTA
Date of first enrolment: 10/4/2007
Target sample size: 2300
Recruitment status: complete
URL:  http://www.trialregister.nl/trialreg/admin/rctview.asp?TC=965
Study type:  intervention
Study design:  Randomised: Yes; Masking: Single; Control: Not applicable; Group: Parallel; Type: 2 or more arms, randomized  
Countries of recruitment
The Netherlands
Contacts
Name: M.H.  Nauta
Address:  Accare, University Centre Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Hanzeplein 1 Postbus 660 9700 AR Groningen The Netherlands
Telephone: +31 50-3681211
Email: m.nauta@accare.nl
Affiliation: 
Name: M.H.  Nauta
Address:  Accare, University Centre Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Hanzeplein 1 Postbus 660 9700 AR Groningen The Netherlands
Telephone: +31 50-3681211
Email: m.nauta@accare.nl
Affiliation: 
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: 1. Scholars in first and second grade of high school (age 13-15);

2. VMBO-T, HAVO and VWO (Atheneum and Gymnasium) with elevated symptoms of social and test anxiety as measured with RCADS and ETAV.

Exclusion criteria: 1. PDD;

2. Other mental disorders based on the ADIS interview C/P;

3. Severe social and/or test anxiety.


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Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Cognitive behavioural group therapy, Computer-based BiasRetraining

Intervention(s)
1. Cognitive behavioural group therapy (appr. 8 participants per group): 12 1,5-hour sessions. Psycho-education, cognitive therapy, exposure, task concentration training;

2. Bias Retraining: internet-based training consisting of 21 45-minute sessions using Interpretational bias retraining, attentional bias retraining and self-esteem conditioning tasks.
Primary Outcome(s)
1. Revised Child Anxiety and Depression Scale (RCADS, Chorpita et al.,
2000);

2. Spielberger Test Anxiety Inventory (Spielberger et al., 1980);

3. the interference of mental disorders by the semi-structured Anxiety;

4. Disorder Interview Schedule (ADIS, Silverman and Albano, 1996).
Secondary Outcome(s)
1. Fear of negative evaluation (FNE, Watson & Friend, 1969; Leary, 1983);

2. Rosenberg self-esteem scale (RSES, Rosenberg, 1965);

3. Matson Evaluation of Social Skills with Youngsters (MESSY, Matson,
Rotatori & Helsel, 1983);

4. Implicit Association Test (IAT, Greenwald et al., 1998).

Secondary ID(s)
incomplete
METC2006.005
Source(s) of Monetary Support
ZON-MW, The Netherlands Organization for Health Research and Development
Secondary Sponsor(s)
University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG)
University of Groningen (RuG), department of Clinical and Developmental Psychology
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