DSM-5: Social anxiety disorder F40.1
Conditions
Interventions
Group 1: Experimental group:
N= 30 patients with social anxiety disorder (female and male), who receive one session of Imagery Rescripting of the memory of an aversive social situation.
Group 2: Cont
Sponsors
Verhaltenstherapeutische Ambulanz der Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, sowie Professur für Psychotherapie und Systemneurowissenschaften, Fachbereich Psychologie und Sportwissenschaften, JLU Gießen
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to 65 Years
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Patients with social anxiety disorder after DSM-V (APA, 2013) language skills: fluent german
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: current psychotherapeutic treatment, serious physical illnesses, taking psychopharmaca or medicine having an effect on the CNS in the last 12 weeks, the existence of...: other primary psychiatric disorders besides the social anxiety disorder, a posttraumatic stress disorder, a schizophrenia-spectrum disorder or other psychotic disorders, a severe depressive episode, a depressive/bipolar episode with psychotic characteristics, an acute stress disorder, a medium or severe disorder with substance use, an emotionally-instable personality disorder
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Primary outcome: social anxiety disorder symptom severity (pre-post (4 weeks after the intervention)) Measure: questionnaire (Liebowitz Soziale Angst Skala (LSAS; Consbruch, Stangier & Heidenreich, 2016) Literature: Consbruch, K. von, Stangier, U. & Heidenreich, T. (2016). Skalen zur Sozialen Angststörung (SOZAS). Göttingen: Hogrefe. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Points of measurement for secondary outcomes (if not described otherwise in the following): 1. before the intervention (control condition vs. Imagery Rescripting (pre) 2. 1 week after the intervention (post 1) 3. 2 weeks after the intervention (post 2) 4. 3 weeks after the intervention (post 3) 5. 4 weeks after the intervention (post 4) Points of measurement for process variables: 1. before the intervention (control condition vs. Imagery Rescripting (pre) 2. directly after the Intervention (post 1) 3. 1 week after the intervention (post 2) (online, only questionnaires) 4. 2 weeks after the intervention (post 3) (online, only questionnaires) 5. 3 weeks after the intervention (post 4) (online, only questionnaires) 6. 4 weeks after the intervention (post 5) Secondary outcomes: 1) social anxiety disorder symptom severity, measure: questionnaires: Soziale-Phobie-Inventar (SPIN; Sosic, Gieler & Stangier, 2007), Sozialphobie Wochenprotokoll (Stangier, Heidenreich & Peitz, 2009)) 2) fear of negative evaluation, measure: questionnaires: Skala Angst vor negativer Bewertung (SANB, Neuser, 2003) (pre - post 4 weeks after the intervention); Skala Angst vor negativer Bewertung Kurzversion (SANB-5; Kemper, Lutz & Neuser, 2012) (post 1 week, 2 weeks, 3 weeks after the intervention) 3) severity of depressive symptoms, measure: questionnaire: Beck Depressionsinventar II (BDI-II) Points of measurement: 1. before the intervention (control condition vs. imagery rescripting) (pre) 2. 4 weeks after the intervention (post 1) 3. 6 months after the intervention (post 2) Mediators/Mechanisms of change: 1) emotional content of the memory, measure: imagination task (short description see "scientific description") with subjective ratings of valence, arousal and distress, as well as psychophysiological measures (HR(V), EDA, facial EMG and breath) during the imagination of the aversive social situation, which is dealt with during the intervention, plus subjective ratings of valence, aro | — |
Countries
Germany
Contacts
Public ContactRosa Bohlender
Psychotherapie und Systemneurowissenschaften, Fachbereich Psychologie und Sportwissenschaften, JLU Gießen
Outcome results
None listed