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Roxana Sipos

- UNIVERSITATEA DE MEDICINA SI FARMACIE "IULIU HATIEGANU"

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Effectiveness of an empirically based web platform for anxiety in youths Call name: Joint Applied Research Projects - PCCA-2011 call, Type 1
PN-II-PT-PCCA-2011-3.1-1500 2012 - 2016

Role in this project:

Coordinating institution: UNIVERSITATEA BABES BOLYAI

Project partners: UNIVERSITATEA BABES BOLYAI (RO); UNIVERSITATEA DE MEDICINA SI FARMACIE (U.M.F) Cluj-Napoca (RO)

Affiliation: UNIVERSITATEA DE MEDICINA SI FARMACIE (U.M.F) Cluj-Napoca (RO)

Project website: http://idare.granturi.ubbcluj.ro

Abstract:

Anxiety disorders are estimated to affect up to 20% of children and adolescents (Costello, Egger & Angold, 2004), being among the most prevalent disorders in this age group. This rate is alarming, given that the prevalence of emotional disorders in children and adolescents is on the rise (Collishaw, Maughan, Natarajan & Pickles, 2010). Therefore, it is essential to develop and make accessible alternative evidence-based interventions, which are cost-effective and easier to disseminate, in a stepped-care approach. Computerized cognitive-behavioral (CBT) and cognitive bias modification (CBM) interventions delivered online have the potential of attending to these requirements (Andersson, 2009; Hallion & Ruscio, 2011). the main goal of the current project is to develop and test a new web platform (iDare) designed to integrate computer-based CBT and CBM interventions, in order to offer an easily accessible treatment of anxiety disorders in youth (age between 12 and 16 years). The development of iDare web platform will be conducted in accordance with the recent guidelines regarding the use of technology for mental health services (see Doherty, Coyle, & Mathews, 2010). Four objectives are subsumed to its development, each of them coming to solve a specific problem and build a solution: (1). To construct a complex theoretical framework for developing the web platform (iDare); (2) To develop a web platform for treating anxiety disorders in youths (iDare platform); (3). To test the preliminary version of the iDare web platform with respect to its usability; (4) To test the clinical utility of two types of treatment (a computer-based CBT protocol, respectively a computer-based CBT protocol supplemented with a CBM component) in decreasing anxious symptomatology in youths, both in terms of its effectiveness and mechanisms of change. The original, novelty and innovative nature of this project are seen at an applied (socio-economic level) and theoretical levels.

World Psychiatric Association’s Thematic Congress, Innovation in Psychiatry: Effective Interventions for Health and Society Call name: P 1 - SP 1.1 - Proiecte de mobilitate pentru cercetatori
PN-III-P1-1.1-MC-2017-1509 2017 -

Role in this project:

Coordinating institution: UNIVERSITATEA DE MEDICINA SI FARMACIE "IULIU HATIEGANU"

Project partners: UNIVERSITATEA DE MEDICINA SI FARMACIE "IULIU HATIEGANU" (RO)

Affiliation: UNIVERSITATEA DE MEDICINA SI FARMACIE "IULIU HATIEGANU" (RO)

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