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Mediators in psychological treatment of social anxiety disorder: Individual cognitive therapy compared to cognitive behavioral group therapy

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Title
Mediators in psychological treatment of social anxiety disorder: Individual cognitive therapy compared to cognitive behavioral group therapy
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Behaviour Research & Therapy, July 2013
DOI 10.1016/j.brat.2013.07.006
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Erik Hedman, Ewa Mörtberg, Hugo Hesser, David M. Clark, Mats Lekander, Erik Andersson, Brjánn Ljótsson

Abstract

According to cognitive-behavioral models of social anxiety disorder (SAD), four of the important maintaining mechanisms are avoidance, self-focused attention, anticipatory processing and post-event cognitive processing. Individual cognitive therapy (ICT) and cognitive behavioral group therapy (CBGT) both have substantial empirical support. However, it is unclear whether they achieve their effects by similar or different mechanisms. The aim of this study was to investigate whether changes in the four maintenance processes mediate clinical improvement in ICT and CBGT for SAD. We analyzed data from participants (N = 94) who received either ICT or CBGT in two separate RCTs. The results showed that ICT had larger effects than CBGT on social anxiety and each of the four potential mediators. More pertinently, moderated mediation analyses revealed significant between-treatment differences. Whereas improvement in ICT was mainly mediated by reductions in avoidance and self-focused attention, improvement in CBGT was mediated by changes in self-focused attention and in anticipatory and post-event processing. These results support the importance of the putative mediators, but suggest that their relative weights are moderated by treatment type.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Portugal 1 <1%
Australia 1 <1%
Sweden 1 <1%
Iran, Islamic Republic of 1 <1%
United States 1 <1%
Unknown 191 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 36 18%
Student > Bachelor 31 16%
Researcher 29 15%
Student > Ph. D. Student 22 11%
Student > Postgraduate 18 9%
Other 28 14%
Unknown 32 16%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 131 67%
Social Sciences 5 3%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 4 2%
Medicine and Dentistry 4 2%
Nursing and Health Professions 2 1%
Other 10 5%
Unknown 40 20%
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#7,047,742
of 25,374,647 outputs
Outputs from Behaviour Research & Therapy
#1,332
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#56,330
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Outputs of similar age from Behaviour Research & Therapy
#11
of 22 outputs
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