Five Year Follow-up of Internet-based Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) for Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD)

Five Year Follow-up of Internet-based Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Social Anxiety Disorder

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT01145690

Acronym

SOFIE-5YFU

Enrollment

Registered

2010-06-17

Start date

2010-06-30

Completion date

2010-09-30

Last updated

2010-10-26

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Conditions

Social Anxiety Disorder

Keywords

cognitive behaviour therapy

Brief summary

Social anxiety disorder (SAD) is one of the most prevalent anxiety disorders in the western world. Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) is the psychological treatment that has the largest empirical support. However, the availability to CBT is very limited in Sweden due to lack of therapists with proper training. Therefore it is important to evaluate alternative forms of treatment that are more time efficient. One of these methods is Internet based self-help therapy, which has proven to be an effective treatment for social anxiety disorder. In this study, the investigators aim to conduct a follow-up assessment five years after completed Internet-based CBT. Participants received treatment within the context of a randomised controlled trial conducted in 2005. Thus, in the present study there will be no treatment interventions, only assessment.

Interventions

None listed

Study design

Observational model

COHORT

Time perspective

RETROSPECTIVE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

18 Years to No maximum

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

* Must have a primary diagnosis of social phobia

Exclusion criteria

* Substance abuse during the last 6 months * Other dominating diagnosis (not phobic personality disorder) * A history of bipolar disorder or psychosis * Major depression according to DSM-IV and \>20 on madrs-s * Risk of suicide * Start of medication or change of dosis during the last 2 months * Other parallel psychological treatment * Previous CBT (last 3 years) for social phobia

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
Measure of social anxiety and avoidance - Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale (LSAS)	5-year follow-up

Secondary

Measure	Time frame
Measure of social anxiety disorder diagnosis - SPSQ	5-year follow-up
Measures of social anxiety in interaction and performance situations - SIAS & SPS	5-year follow-up
Measure of depressive symptoms - MADRS-S	5-year follow-up
Measure of general anxiety - BAI	5-year follow-up
Measure of quality of life - QOLI	5-year follow-up

Countries

Sweden

Outcome results