Social phobias
Conditions
Interventions
Treatments: group cognitive behavioral therapy, individual trial-based cognitive therapy, control intervention.
Experimental groups: this study has two experimental groups. The group 1 has 30 individu
Behavioural
Sponsors
Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto - Universidade de São Paulo
Fundação de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)
Eligibility
Age
18 Years to 45 Years
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: There are different inclusion criterias for participants with social anxiety disorder and healthy individuals. Inclusion criteria for participants with social anxiety disorder: individuals aging 18 to 45 years old; both gender; with scores equal or higher than 19 points at social phobia inventory; and confirmation of social anxiety disorder as the primary diagnoses. Inclusion criterias for healthy individuals: healthy volunteers aging 18 to 45 years old; both gender; that do not present social anxiety disorder ou any other mental disorder.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Age under 18 and older than 45 years old; psychotic symptoms and accentuated cognitive deficits; and the presence of social anxiety disorder as a secondary diagnoses to other disorders and conditions; individuals in psychotherapy treatment until the beggining of the interventions and that did not want to interrupt the treatment in progress. Exclusion criterias to comparison healthy group: any psychiatric condition, beside all the exclusion criterias described above.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Reduction of social anxiety symptoms at participants randomized to trial-based cognitive therapy or group cognitive behavioral therapy compared to control intervention (no treatment). It is expected a reduction of social phobia inventory scores (primary outcome measure) to lower than 25 points after 16 sessions of therapy. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Reduction of depression symptoms measured by beck depression inventory of participants randomized to treatment conditions. It is expected that these participants present scores lower than 15 points after 16 sessions of therapy (individual or group format) compared to control intervention (no treatment). It is expected too a reduction of attentional bias of treated participants, measured by reaction time to emocional words at emotional stroop task; and a reduction at false memories, measured by the response at deese-roediger mcdermott paradigm, compared to control intervention. | — |
Countries
Brazil
Contacts
Public ContactCarmem Neufeld
Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto - Universidade de São Paulo
Outcome results
None listed