Effectiveness of various treatment methods for generalized anxiety disorder
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Abstract
Effectiveness of Various Treatment Methods for Generalized Anxiety Disorder Author Lauren Petryshyn Background According to the World Health Organization, approximately 301 million people are afflicted by an anxiety disorder. While it may first be identified in adulthood, anxiety symptoms frequently present in childhood or adolescence. Anxiety often leads to impairments in a person's quality of life, their productivity, and overall ability to function. There is a prevalence of 4.3% that the general population will develop GAD within their lifetime. The purpose of this quality improvement project was to discover the effectiveness of mindfulness as an adjunct to Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for GAD. Methods There are several effective treatment methods for GAD, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors, and stress management techniques such as mindfulness. Mindfulness has proven to be beneficial for both one's mental and physical well-being. Implementation included informing potential participants via infographics in the offices, along with an email. One challenge that occurred was difficulty recruiting participants within the short time frame of under two months. To evaluate the efficacy of this intervention, participants were asked to complete the GAD-7 and McGill Quality of Life Questionnaire pre-intervention and post-intervention. Results Two participants recorded they did participate in a mindfulness intervention three times a week but for less than the six-week time frame. Unfortunately, these results are inconclusive. Conclusions Future studies should be conducted at numerous sites with a longer time frame to recruit patients to better analyze the impact mindfulness has on patients with Generalized Anxiety Disorder that are currently being treated with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. IRB Approval IRB approval through full review. Co-Authors Dr. Nancy M. Birtley, Dr. Kimberly Hammonds, Dr. Crystal Quarry, & Dr. Jan Sherman Learning Objective The purpose of this quality improvement (QI) project was to discover the effectiveness of mindfulness as an adjunct to Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for GAD.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.011 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.007 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".