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RecruitingNCT07774481Updated Aug 19, 2026

Anxiety Skills Study

An interventional study of Cognitive therapy and Behavioral therapy in Anxiety, Anxiety Acute and Anxiety Chronic, sponsored by Ohio State University. Recruiting at 1 site in United States. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-08-19.

Sponsored by Ohio State University · Not applicable, Interventional, and Treatment

From the registry’s dates

  • Registered 9 months after the study started (first participant enrolled Oct 2025, registered Aug 2026).
  • Started Oct 2025; still recruiting 1 year later.
Phase
Not applicable
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
600
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
18 Years and older
Sex
All
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Study summary

The purposes of this study are: (1) to identify baseline predictors of relative success in cognitive, behavioral, and mindfulness-based treatments for anxiety, (2) explore who benefits from a brief, video-based skill training compared to receiving 4 sessions of therapy, and (3) to evaluate how durable these effects are over 1 year.

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Conditions studied

  • Anxiety
  • Anxiety Acute
  • Anxiety Chronic
  • Anxiety and Mood Disorders
  • Social Anxiety Disorder
  • Panic Disorder (With or Without Agoraphobia)
  • Generalized Anxiety Disorder
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
  • Specific Phobia

Keywords

  • anxiety
  • CBT
  • treatment
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In context

Anxiety Disorders

7,201 studies on the registry are indexed under Anxiety Disorders; 1,682 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 600 is above the median of 80 across 6,057 interventional studies indexed under Anxiety Disorders.

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Lead sponsor

Ohio State University is the lead sponsor of 663 studies on the registry; 148 are open to participants now.

Of its 67 completed or terminated interventional studies of FDA-regulated products, 49 (73%) have results posted.

Counted across the registry records on this site, refreshed daily.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years and older
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

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Inclusion criteria

  • Presence of clinically elevated anxiety
  • Living in Ohio

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • No access to a smartphone
  • Presence of conditions that would necessitate alternative care
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Study design

Phase
Not applicable
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
Single (Participant)
Enrollment
600 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Active comparator
    Cognitive therapy

    Behavioral: Cognitive therapy

  • Active comparator
    Behavioral therapy

    Behavioral: Behavioral therapy

  • Active comparator
    Mindfulness-based therapy

    Behavioral: Mindfulness-based therapy

Interventions

  • BehavioralCognitive therapy

    Cognitive therapy involves identifying and challenging negative automatic thoughts.

  • BehavioralBehavioral therapy

    Behavioral therapy involves identifying emotional urges and acting opposite to those urges.

  • BehavioralMindfulness-based therapy

    Mindfulness-based therapy involves cultivating nonjudgmental present-moment awareness of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Overall Anxiety Severity and Impairment Scale (OASIS)

    Minimum value: 0. Maximum value = 20. High scores mean worse outcomes.

    Time frame: Weekly for 6 weeks, then monthly for 1 year.

Secondary outcomes

  1. Overall Depression Severity and Impairment Scale (ODSIS)

    Minimum = 0. Maximum = 20. Higher scores mean worse outcomes.

    Time frame: Weekly for 6 weeks, then monthly for 1 year.

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Study locations

1 of 1 sites recruiting
  • Psychology Building at Ohio State University
    Columbus, Ohio 43210, United States
    Recruiting
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References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: Undecided — We plan to share participants' condition and primary and secondary outcome data, although, given the ending of Open Science Framework support for this sharing, we are undecided about where and how we will share this data.

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Timeline

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
ElapsedEstimatedEstimated, not yet reachedSimilar studies: half by the dot; the band is the middle halfHalf of similar studies reached it by the dot; the band is the middle half, from a quarter to three quarters

Started Oct 2025 (actual). Primary completion is estimated for Aug 2029, 46 months after the start.

Of 3,836 non-industry interventional studies with no phase under Anxiety Disorders, half reached primary completion within 12 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 5 and three quarters within 28. This study's planned 46 months is above that.

Counting every sponsor, half of 3,938 studies reached it within 12 months; a quarter within 5 and three quarters within 28.

How these figures are worked out, and which studies are left out of them.

Registered
Aug 14, 2026
First posted
Aug 19, 2026
StartActual
Oct 20, 2025
Primary completionEst.
Aug 31, 2029
CompletionEst.
Aug 31, 2030
Last update
Aug 19, 2026
What these dates mean
Start.
When the first participant enrolled; while estimated, when the study expects to open to recruitment.
Primary completion.
When the last participant was examined or treated to collect data for the study's main question, its primary outcome. A study that stopped early gives the date its data collection stopped.
Completion.
When the last participant's last visit took place, for every outcome, secondary ones and side effects included: the end of the study. Often later than primary completion, sometimes the same day.
Actual and Est.
Actual means the registry says the date has happened. Est. (estimated) is a date the sponsor plans or expects. It can still move, and the sponsor is expected to change it to actual once it has passed.
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Aug 19, 2026, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT07774481
Responsible party
Matthew Southward, PhD (Assistant Professor, Ohio State University) — Principal investigator
First posted
Aug 19, 2026
Start date
Oct 20, 2025
Primary completion
Aug 31, 2029 (estimated)
Completion
Aug 31, 2030 (estimated)
Last update
Aug 19, 2026

Study contacts

Study Coordinator, PhD
Contact
anxietyskillsstudy@gmail.com
614-398-1624

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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