Long-term effectiveness of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for children and adolescents in routine care – R analysis script

This repository contains the anonymized R analysis script accompanying the article by Hüwelmeier et al. (2026) on long-term effectiveness of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for children and adolescents in routine outpatient care. The script reproduces all reported data preprocessing steps, statistical analyses, sensitivity analyses and figure generation procedures described in the manuscript. Raw clinical data are not publicly available due to ethical and legal restrictions related to patient confidentiality.

Code for: Hüwelmeier, M. M., Staniczek, L., Schneider, S., Zhang, X. C., Wannemüller, A., Hirschfeld, G., Krause, K., Friedrich, S., & von Brachel, R. (2026). Long-term effectiveness of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for children and adolescents in routine care. BMC Psychology, 14(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40359-026-04667-3