Corina Benjet, Yesica Albor, Libia Alvis-Barranco, Carlos C Contreras-Ibáñez, Gina Cuartas, Lorena Cudris-Torres, Noé González, Jacqueline Cortés-Morelos, Raúl A Gutierrez-Garcia, Maria Elena Medina-Mora, Pamela Patiño, Eunice Vargas-Contreras, Pim Cuijpers, Sarah M Gildea, Alan E Kazdin, Chris J Kennedy, Alex Luedtke, Nancy A Sampson, Maria V Petukhova, Nur Hani Zainal, Ronald C Kessler
OBJECTIVE: Untreated mental disorders are important among low- and middle-income country (LMIC) university students in Latin America, where barriers to treatment are high. Scalable interventions are needed. This study compared transdiagnostic self-guided and guided internet-delivered cognitive behavioral therapy (i-CBT) with treatment as usual (TAU) for clinically significant anxiety and depression among undergraduates in Colombia and Mexico. METHOD: 1,319 anxious, as determined by the Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7 (GAD-7) = 10+ and/or depressed, as determined by the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) = 10+, undergraduates (mean [SD] age = 21...
December 2023: Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology