Publications by authors named "E Leibing"
Article Synopsis
- Social anxiety disorder (SAD) can be effectively treated with cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), but there is limited understanding of how symptom severity affects treatment outcomes.
- This study aimed to investigate whether the severity of SAD symptoms at the start of therapy influences the degree of improvement after undergoing CBT.
- The research included a meta-analysis of 12 studies with 1246 participants, revealing a significant reduction in symptoms from baseline to post-treatment when comparing CBT results to a waiting list control group.
Objectives: The use of trajectories and analysis of change patterns is a promising way toward better differentiation of subgroups in psychotherapy studies. Research on change patterns in social anxiety disorder (SAD) are still rare, although SAD is one of the most common mental disorders. In a secondary analysis of data from the SOPHO-NET-trial (ISRCTN53517394) this study aimed to investigate change patterns and their predictors in a sample of SAD patients.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: Social anxiety disorder is one of the most prevalent mental disorders and often manifests in youth or adolescence. Our aim was to determine direct costs of adolescents with social anxiety disorder and the cost-effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) and psychodynamic therapy (PDT) compared to waiting list (WL).
Methods: Baseline data (n = 103) of a randomized controlled trial was used to determine direct costs.
Background: Although social anxiety disorder (SAD) has an early onset and is frequently found in adolescence, evidence for psychotherapeutic treatments of SAD in adolescents is rather scarce. Within the Social Phobia Psychotherapy Research Network (SOPHO-NET), we examined the efficacy of cognitive-behavioral (CBT) and psychodynamic therapy (PDT) compared to a waiting list (WL) in these patients.
Methods: In a multicenter randomized controlled superiority trial, 107 patients, aged 14-20 years, were randomized to CBT (n = 34), PDT (n = 34), or WL (n = 39).
Objective: The German version of the Social Phobia and Anxiety Inventory (SPAI-G) is a validated measure for the detection of social anxiety disorder (SAD). The aim of the present study was to develop optimal cut points (OC) for remission and response to treatment for the SPAI-G.
Methods: We used Receiver Operating Characteristic methods and bootstrapping to analyse the data of 359 patients after psychotherapeutic treatment.