Effectiveness of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy of Reduction of Test Anxiety (GroupCBT)

University Grants Commission

Status: Completed

Conditions: Test Anxiety

Treatments: Behavioral: Group CBT for test anxiety

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04500340

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Details and patient eligibility

About

This study will evaluate the role of Group Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in test anxiety. The study participants will be psychology undergraduates with social work and psychology majors. The students will be selected among those who score three or more in Westside Test Anxiety Scale will participate in the study. Westside Test Anxiety will be used two weeks after completion of the group Cognitive Behavioral Therapy protocol (Flaxman, Bond & Keogh. 2004). The result will be analyzed using the t-test and Cohen's d.

Enrollment: 80 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Those Studying Social work and Psychology as Major subjects, Those who have scored 3 and above in Westside Test Anxiety scale

Exclusion criteria

• Those scoring below 3 in Westside Test Anxiety Scale

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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80 participants in 2 patient groups

Group Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (Group CBT)

Experimental group

Description:

Intervention Group will receive ten-session group CBT for test anxiety. Two sessions will be carried out each week.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Group CBT for test anxiety

Control Group

No Intervention group

Description:

The Control group will be waiting for the control group who will receive intervention if they demand after final assessment for outcome measure.