Impact of cognitive behavioural play therapy on social anxiety among school children with stuttering deficit: A cluster randomised trial with three months follow-up
| Autor: | Ibiwari Caroline Dike, Moses Onyemaechi Ede, Uchenna Eugenia Uzodinma, Chimezie N. Onwurah, Patience Enuma Obiweluozo, Juliana Ngozi Ejiofor |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Stuttering medicine.medical_treatment Nigeria schooling children Anxiety law.invention 03 medical and health sciences cognitive-behavioral play therapy 0302 clinical medicine Randomized controlled trial law Intervention (counseling) Play therapy medicine Cluster Analysis Humans 030212 general & internal medicine Child Social Behavior Cognitive Behavioral Therapy business.industry Social anxiety Repeated measures design Cognition Clinical Trial/Experimental Study General Medicine children with stuttering Play Therapy Cognitive behavioral therapy social anxiety symptoms 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis Female social anxiety medicine.symptom business Research Article Clinical psychology Follow-Up Studies |
| Zdroj: | Medicine |
| ISSN: | 1536-5964 |
| Popis: | Background: Stuttering 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. Method: This 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. Results: The 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. Conclusion: It 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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