Improving Cardiometabolic Health in Adolescent Girls With Elevated Anxiety: Web-Based Multisite, Pilot, and Feasibility Randomized Controlled Trial

Caitlin Edwards   ^{1, 2 *} , MA, PhD ;   Lisa Ranzenhofer   ^{3 *} , PhD ;   Jason Lavender   ^{4, 5 *} , PhD ;   Lauren D Gulley   ^{2, 6 *} , PhD ;   Stephen Aichele   ^{1 *} , PhD ;   Isabel Thorstad   ^{4 *} , BS ;   Natalia Sanchez   ^{1 *} , MPH ;   Ruby Schrag   ^{4 *} , BS ;   Zoe Sinkford   ^{4 *} , BA ;   Jill Emerick   ^{7 *} , MD ;   Victoria Thomas   ^{4 *} , BS ;   Thomas Arnold   ^{4 *} , SCCM ;   Jami Young   ^{8 *} , PhD ;   Denise Wilfley   ^{9 *} , PhD ;   Mark Haigney   ^{4 *} , MD ;   Lauren Shomaker   ^{1, 2 *} , PhD ;   Marian Tanofsky-Kraff   ^{4, 10 *} , PhD

¹ Department of Human Development and Family Studies, College of Health and Human Services, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States

² Endocrinology, Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus and Children’s Hospital Colorado, Aurora, CO, United States

³ Department of Psychiatry, University at Buffalo Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Buffalo, NY, United States

⁴ Department of Medicine, Military and Cardiovascular Outcomes Research (MiCOR), Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD, United States

⁵ The Metis Foundation, San Antonio, TX, United States

⁶ University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, 6Barbara Davis Center for Diabetes, Aurora, CO, United States

⁷ Department of Pediatrics, Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, MD, United States

⁸ Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, United States

⁹ Department of Psychiatry, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, United States

¹⁰ Department of Medical and Clinical Psychology, Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, MD, United States

*all authors contributed equally