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ArticleBehavior therapy2022

Can a Single Measure Estimate Protocol Adherence for Two Psychosocial Treatments for Youth Anxiety Delivered in Community Mental Health Settings?

Bryce D McLeod, Ruben G Martinez, Michael A Southam-Gerow, John R Weisz, Bruce F Chorpita

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Article in Behavior therapy, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
1.7field-weighted citation impact, top 14% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. The Content of Usual Clinical Care for Youth with Primary Anxiety Problems.Administration and policy in mental health · 2025
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  2. Treatment Fidelity and Outcome in CBT for Youth with Autism: The MEYA Fidelity Scale.Journal of clinical child and adolescent psychology : the official journal for the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, American Psychological Association, Division 53
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Bryce D McLeodVirginia Commonwealth University. Electronic address: bmcleod@vcu.edu.
Ruben G MartinezVirginia Commonwealth University; University of California, Los Angeles.
Michael A Southam-GerowVirginia Commonwealth University.
John R WeiszHarvard University.
Bruce F ChorpitaUniversity of California, Los Angeles.
Virginia Commonwealth University · USHarvard University Press · USUniversity of California, Los Angeles · US

Funding

TRAINING THE SCIENCE OF CHILD MENTAL HEALTH TREATMENTT32MH073517 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI SUMA JACOB, John C. Piacentini · 2006 to 2026
$5.2M
Development and Validation of Child Therapy Integrity MeasuresR01MH086529 · NIMH · VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY · PI MCLEOD, BRYCE DOUGLAS, SOUTHAM-GEROW, MICHAEL A · 2010 to 2014
$1.7M
NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH086529NIMH NIH HHS T32 MH073517
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Treatment adherence measurement can be time and resource-intensive in clinical trials, so the ability to measure protocol adherence for two distinct treatment programs with a single measure may benefit the field. The present study sought to determine if the Therapy Process Observational Coding System - Revised Strategies Scale (TPOCS-RS) could assess protocol adherence to two youth treatment programs. Treatment sessions (N = 796) from 55 youth (M age = 9.89 years, SD = 1.71; range 7-15 years; 55.0% White; 46.0% female) with primary anxiety problems treatment by 39 clinicians (M age = 40.54 years, SD = 9.56; 50.0% White; 80.0% female) were independently scored by coders using observational treatment adherence and alliance measures. The youth received one of three treatments: (a) Standard (i.e., cognitive-behavioral treatment program), (b) Modular (i.e., a program with cognitive-behavioral and parent training components), or (c) Usual Care. Consultants filled out a self-report measure of protocol adherence within the Standard and Modular conditions. Interrater reliability, ICC(2,2) for the various items for the full sample ranged from .17 to .92 (M ICC = .67; SD = .17). Scores from a TPOCS-RS subscale that mapped onto the specific content of the treatment protocols used in the Standard and Modular conditions evidenced convergent validity with the consultant-report adherence measure and discriminant validity with the alliance measure. The model-specific TPOCS-RS subscales also discriminated between the Standard and Modular treatments and Usual Care. This study provides initial evidence that (a) the TPOCS-RS has utility in estimating protocol adherence in different treatment programs and (b) support the score validity of the self-report consultation records.

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Cognitive Behavioral TherapyMental HealthAdolescentAnxietyAnxiety DisordersChildFemaleHumansMaleReproducibility of Resultscognitive-behavioral therapytreatment integrityyouth anxiety

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PMID35027154
PMCPMC8760467
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