Efficacy of cognitive-behavioral therapy combined with habit reversal training on anxiety disorders in children with Tourette’s syndrome

Table 3 Post-intervention anxiety and tic severity scores

Measure	Control (n = 65)	CBT combined with HRT (n = 71)	t value	P value
Anxiety score	40.53 ± 1.64	39.97 ± 1.58	2.022	0.045
YGTSS total score	16.28 ± 4.91	14.49 ± 4.12	2.288	0.024
CY-BOCS total Score	13.36 ± 3.82	11.75 ± 3.49	2.555	0.012
CGI-S score	2.31 ± 0.68	2.08 ± 0.59	2.146	0.034
FACES IV score	24.77 ± 6.28	27.48 ± 5.93	2.586	0.011

CBT: Cognitive-behavioral therapy; HRT: Habit reversal training; YGTSS: Yale Global Tic Severity Scale; CY-BOCS: Children's Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale; CGI-S: Clinical Global Impression-Severity.