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

Test Anxiety: Pervasiveness, Link With Academic Achievement and Impact of Cognitive-behavioral Intervention in Its Reduction

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.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Test Anxiety
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: Group CBT for test anxiety

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 80
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Nepal
  • Bagmati
    • Kathmandu, Bagmati, Nepal
      • Nepal Mega College and K and K International College

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: Child; Adult; Older Adult
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

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

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Treatment
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Group Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (Group CBT); Intervention Group will receive ten-session group CBT for test anxiety. Two sessions will be carried out each week.	Behavioral: Group CBT for test anxiety; The cognitive-behavioral therapy protocol developed by Flaxman, Bond & Keogh (2004) will be used as the intervention protocol. This protocol consists of 10 Sessions which are provided twice a week (each group will have 10 students).
No Intervention: Control Group; The Control group will be waiting for the control group who will receive intervention if they demand after final assessment for outcome measure.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Westside Test Anxiety Scale (WTAS)	The WTAS consists of 10 items, each using a Likert response scale where 1= "Never true" and 5= "always true. Total score is divided by 10 to obtain final scores. The total score ranges from one to five. Score of 1-2.9 is considered normal test anxiety and score of 3-5 is labelled as high test anxiety.	Change from Baseline Test Anxiety Scores after completion of Group Cognitive Behavioral Therapy ( after one and half month)

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: University Grants Commission
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Khem R. Bhatta, Master, Tribhuvan University

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): February 20, 2019
• Primary Completion (Actual): July 1, 2019
• Study Completion (Actual): July 1, 2019

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: July 18, 2020
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: August 4, 2020
• First Posted (Actual): August 5, 2020

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): August 5, 2020
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: August 4, 2020
• Last Verified: August 1, 2020

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Mental Disorders; Anxiety Disorders
• Other Study ID Numbers: UGrantsCommission

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No