Determining the Efficacy of Electronic Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Generalized Anxiety Disorder Compared to Pharmaceutical Interventions: Protocol for a Quasi-Experimental Study

Nazanin Alavi   ^{1, 2} , MD, FRCPC ;   Callum Stephenson   ^{1, 2} , BScH ;   Megan Yang   ¹ , MD, FRCPC ;   Amirhossein Shirazi   ^{1, 2, 3} , MD, PhD ;   Yijia Shao   ^{1, 4} ;   Anchan Kumar   ¹ , MD ;   Caitlin S Yee   ¹ , MD ;   Shadé Miller   ¹ , MD ;   Anthi Stefatos   ¹ , MD ;   Maedeh Gholamzadehmir   ¹ , PhD ;   Zara Abbaspour   ¹ , MD ;   Archana Patel   ¹ , MD, FRCPC ;   Charmy Patel   ¹ , BScH, MPH ;   Taras Reshetukha   ¹ , MD, FRCPC ;   Mohsen Omrani   ³ , MD, PhD ;   Dianne Groll   ¹ , PhD

¹ Department of Psychiatry, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada

² Centre for Neuroscience Studies, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada

³ OPTT Inc, Toronto, ON, Canada

⁴ Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada