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Preventing family transmission of anxiety: Feasibility RCT of a brief intervention for parents.

Sam Cartwright-HattonDonna EwingSuzanne DashZoe HughesEllen J ThompsonCassie M HazellAndy P FieldHelen Startup
Published in: The British journal of clinical psychology (2018)
Anxiety disorders run in families, but we currently do little to help anxious parents to raise confident children. A brief group workshop was highly acceptable to such parents and was very inexpensive to run. Children of parents who took part in the brief intervention were 16.5% less likely to have an anxiety disorder, 1 year later, than children whose parents were in the control group. This was a feasibility study, and while it showed that both the intervention and the research were feasible, the study needs replicating with a much larger sample. Many parents faced barriers to attending the workshop, and future efforts should focus on widening accessibility. We were unable to obtain sufficient self-report data from children, so the outcomes are based on parent report only.
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