It was suggested that outcome for treatment of anxious depression in this study may have benefited from greater clinical efforts than in previous studies to reduce attrition (eg, providing reassurance, including phone contact between scheduled appointments).
Even though studies that selected children via clinical settings showed high comorbidity between anxiety and other mental health problems [ 51], in this study high-anxious and median-anxious children did not differ with respect to the number of the disorders dysthymia, depression, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
In this study, only non-anxious participants were included, and anxiety was manipulated on a within-subjects basis.
Third, most variables (i.e., anxious interpretations/attributions of physical symptoms, anxiety sensitivity, cognitive development) in this study were only assessed by means of children's self-report.
Female MI survivors in this study reported they experienced sad, anxious, and depressed feelings, but not significantly more often than the general female population.
In comparison to previous findings, in this study both high and low anxious participants predominately adopted a field perspective, that is, "as if seeing the situation through their own eyes".
Also in this study, high- and low-anxious participants did not differ in performance accuracy, yet the high-anxious were slower in performing correct antisaccades.
In this study, high and low socially-anxious individuals reported memories of social occasions and designated the perspective of these memories as "observer", "field", or "neither".
The aim of the short- NART was to lessen participant load and anxiety, however in an assessment such as the one in this study; participants were as likely to be anxious for any of the other components.
A total of 120 clinically anxious children (8 - 12 years old) and their parents will participate in this study after filling in a consent form (see Figure 1 for the study design).
