Trial reportMedicine2021
Impact of cognitive behavioural play therapy on social anxiety among school children with stuttering deficit: A cluster randomised trial with three months follow-up.
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- Primary-level and community worker interventions for the prevention of mental disorders and the promotion of well-being in low- and middle-income countries.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2023Pooled it
- Extended Clinical Follow-Up and Long-Term Stuttering Outcomes: A 24-Month Observational Study.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- How Many Anxious Kids in Community Mental Health Would Be Eligible for an RCT? And Does It Matter? Insights from a Naturalistic Sample and a Non-Systematic Review.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Influence of Marital and Parental Status on Public Reactions to Stuttering in Chile: A Socio-Demographic Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- Social anxiety and gratitude among children left behind due to migration in western rural China.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Effect of exercise-based counselling intervention for female school administrators with experience of work-family conflict: an exploratory study.BMC sports science, medicine & rehabilitation · 2025Article
- Disputing and challenging academic procrastination behaviors in students using REBT approach.Medicine · 2025Article
- Effectiveness of Cognitive-Behavioral Play Therapy on Behavioral Adjustment and Problem-Solving Skills in Students with Dyslexia.International journal of school health · 2025Article
- Psychological interventions for children with emotional and behavioral difficulties aged 5-12 years: An evidence review.Global mental health (Cambridge, England) · 2024Review
- Rational emotive intervention for work-family conflict and female primary school teachers' well-being.Current psychology (New Brunswick, N.J.) · 2022Article
- Intervention for Treating Depression in Parents of Children with Intellectual Disability of Down's Syndrome: A Sample of Nigerian Parents.Journal of rational-emotive and cognitive-behavior therapy : RET · 2022Article
- Testing the Efficacy of Family Health-Model of REBT on Family Values and Quality of Family Life Among Parents of Children with Visual Impairment.Journal of rational-emotive and cognitive-behavior therapy : RET · 2022Article
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6 authors at 2 institutions in 3 countries.
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Abstract
backgroundStuttering is a speech deficit which is characterized by obstruction of speech eloquence and verbal expression in addition to involuntary flow of air during communication. School children with communication deficit often experience social anxiety in their immediate environment. Currently, reports show that a good number of children with communication deficits are prone to social maladjustment due to their being socially inept. And this has significantly affected their thought pattern, social behaviours and emotional responses. In view of this, we examined the impact of cognitive behavioural play therapy in reducing social anxiety among school children with stuttering.
methodThis is a pretest-posttest randomized control group design. Participants were 178schoolchildren in inclusive schools in South east Nigeria. Participants in the intervention group were treated using cognitive behavioural play therapy programme (CBPT). Participants in the waitlist control group were only assessed at three points of assessment. Data analyses were completed using repeated measures ANOVA.
resultsThe results show that cognitive behavioural play therapy is beneficial in decreasing schoolchildren's social anxiety scores. The intervention equally showed the considerable impacts on the children when exposed to cognitive behavioural play programme at different times of assessment compared to waitlisted control group.
conclusionIt is concluded that CBPT is a long-term psychotherapeutic programme that has significant impacts in reducing social anxiety among children with stuttering. This study makes a leading contribution on the limited scholarship focusing on the impact of CBPT on social anxiety of special population with stuttering deficits in developing countries.
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