{
  "id": 1501465,
  "title": "Intervention program reduces children's anxiety and improves functional ability",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/17/intervention-program-reduces-childrens-anxiety-and-improves",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-08-17T14:40:02.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Medical Xpress",
    "slug": "medical-xpress",
    "url": "https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-08-intervention-children-anxiety-functional-ability.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "A new follow-up study examined the efficacy of the Master Your Worries program developed by the Research Center for Child Psychiatry at the University of Turku in Finland. It involved 465 Finnish children ages 10–13 who showed symptoms of anxiety. The children were screened during annual school health checkups. No similar study using a population-based screening program to identify anxiety in…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}