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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Feb 4.
Published in final edited form as: J Anxiety Disord. 2012 Feb 10;26(4):488–501. doi: 10.1016/j.janxdis.2012.02.002

Table 2.

Asian American treatment outcome studies.

Author Sample Diagnosis Treatment Control (Y/N?) Outcome
Geiger (1994) 214 Asian Americans None Ethnic matching of therapist and client Yes Ethnic matching reduced drop out.
Pan et al. (2011) 30 Asian Americans Specific phobia Culturally adaptive CBT Yes Treatment was effective. Acculturation moderated treatment outcomes.
Otto et al. (2003) 10 female Cambodian refugees PTSD CBT combined with Sertraline Yes Both groups improved. Combined treatment improved slightly more.
Kubany et al. (2003) 32 ethnically diverse women
10 Asian Americans
6 Pacific Islanders
PTSD Cognitive Trauma Therapy No Equal benefit across ethnic groups.
Hinton et al. (2004) 12 Vietnamese refugees PTSD and panic attacks Culturally adaptive CBT No Treatment was effective.
Hinton et al. (2005) 40 Cambodian refugees PTSD and panic attacks Culturally adaptive CBT No Treatment was effective.
Hinton, Pich, et al. (2006) 3 Vietnamese refugees PTSD and panic attacks Culturally adaptive CBT No Treatment was effective.
Hinton, Safren, et al. (2006) 3 Cambodian refugees PTSD Somatic-focused CBT No Treatment was effective.
Zhang et al. (2002) 143 urban Chinese GAD Chinese Taoist Cognitive psychotherapy (CTCP) combined with benzodiazepines Yes Both groups improved. CTCP associated with reduced relapse rate.