ArticleJMIR mental health2021
Empowering Anxious Parents to Manage Child Avoidance Behaviors: Randomized Control Trial of a Single-Session Intervention for Parental Accommodation.
Article in JMIR mental health, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 2 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 20 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Empowering Anxious Parents to Manage Child Avoidance Behaviors: A Randomized Trial of a Single-Session Intervention Targeting Parent Accommodation
The Development and Evaluation of an Online, Caregiver-Directed Single Session Intervention for Building Independence in Daily Living Skills in Autistic Youth
Who cites it
20 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 59 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Brief Report: Single-Session Interventions for Mental Health Challenges in Autistic People: An (Almost) Empty Systematic Review.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2026Pooled it
- Online Parenting Programs for Children's Behavioral and Emotional Problems: a Network Meta-Analysis.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2025Pooled it
- Engaging Parents in Technology-Assisted Interventions for Childhood Adversity: Systematic Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2024Pooled it
- Results from a Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial of a Single-Session Growth-Mindset Intervention for Internalizing Symptoms in Autistic Youth.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2025Trial
- Intervention for School Anxiety and Absenteeism in Children (ISAAC): Mixed-Method Feasibility Study of a Coach-Assisted, Parent-Focused Online Program.Child psychiatry and human development · 2026Article
- Reducing Parental Accommodation in Neurodiverse Families: Adaptation of a Digital Single-Session Intervention.Child psychiatry and human development · 2026Article
- Family Engagement in a Digital Intervention Targeting Risk for Anxiety in Parent-Child Dyads: Mixed Methods Study.JMIR pediatrics and parenting · 2026Article
- A mobile-based, single-session intervention to empower parents of adolescents hospitalised for non-suicidal self-injury: A mixed-methods randomised controlled trial.Internet interventions · 2025Article
- Intervention for school anxiety and absenteeism in children (ISAAC): Co-designing a brief parent-focused intervention for emotionally-based school avoidance.Clinical child psychology and psychiatry · 2024Article
- Perfect storm: emotionally based school avoidance in the post-COVID-19 pandemic context.BMJ mental health · 2024Article
- An Exposure-Based Video Game (Dr. Zoo) to Reduce Needle Phobia in Children Aged 3 to 6 Years: Development and Mixed Methods Pilot Study.JMIR serious games · 2023Article
- Realizing the untapped promise of single-session interventions for eating disorders.The International journal of eating disorders · 2023Article
- A Digital Single-Session Intervention Platform for Youth Mental Health: Cultural Adaptation, Evaluation, and Dissemination.JMIR mental health · 2023Article
- AI-based chatbot micro-intervention for parents: Meaningful engagement, learning, and efficacy.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- Single-Session Interventions Embedded Within Tumblr: Acceptability, Feasibility, and Utility Study.JMIR formative research · 2022Article
- Web-Based Single Session Intervention for Perceived Control Over Anxiety During COVID-19: Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR mental health · 2022Article
- Adolescent dropout from brief digital mental health interventions within and beyond randomized trials.Internet interventions · 2022Article
- User experience with a parenting chatbot micro intervention.Frontiers in digital health · 2022Article
- Harnessing the Single-Session Intervention approach to promote scalable implementation of evidence-based practices in healthcare.Frontiers in health services · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundA majority of youth who need anxiety treatment never access support. This disparity reflects a need for more accessible, scalable interventions-particularly those that may prevent anxiety in high-risk children, mitigating future need for higher-intensity care. Self-guided single-session interventions (SSIs) may offer a promising path toward this goal, given their demonstrated clinical utility, potential for disseminability, and low cost. However, existing self-guided SSIs have been designed for completion by adolescents already experiencing symptoms, and their potential for preventing anxiety in children-for instance, by mitigating known anxiety risk factors-remains unexplored.
objectiveThis trial evaluated the acceptability and proximal effects of project EMPOWER: a web-based, self-guided SSI designed to reduce parental accommodation, a parenting behavior known to increase the risk of anxiety in offspring.
methodsIn total, 301 parents who reported elevated anxiety symptoms with children aged 4-10 years received either project EMPOWER or an informational control (containing psychoeducational materials and resources); parents self-reported their accommodation of child anxiety and overall distress tolerance at baseline and 2-week follow-up.
resultsRelative to control-group parents, those who received the intervention outlined in project EMPOWER reported significant reductions in their accommodation of child anxiety (d
conclusionsProject EMPOWER is an acceptable self-guided SSI for parents of children at-risk for anxiety, which yields proximal reductions in clinically relevant targets.
trial registrationClinicalTrials.gov NCT04453865; https://tinyurl.com/4h84j8t9.
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