TY  - JOUR
AB  - BACKGROUND: Cognitions play an important role in the development and maintenance of social anxiety disorder (SAD). METHODS: To investigate whether changes in cognitions during the first six sessions of exposure therapy are associated with treatment outcome, we assessed reported self-focused attention, self-efficacy in social situations, and estimated social costs in 60 participants (Mage = 36.9 years) diagnosed with SAD who received in vivo or virtual reality exposure therapy. RESULTS: Patients demonstrating a greater decrease in estimated social costs during treatment reported greater improvement of their social anxiety symptoms following both forms of exposure therapy. While changes in self-focused attention and social self-efficacy during treatment were significantly associated with treatment outcome when examined individually, these changes did not significantly predict symptom improvement beyond social costs. CONCLUSIONS: Changes in estimated social costs during treatment are associated with improvement of social anxiety symptoms after exposure therapy. Future research needs to further investigate estimated social costs as a predictor in relation to other cognitive variables.
AU  - Kampmann, Isabel
AU  - Emmelkamp, Paul M. G.
AU  - Morina, Nexhmedin
DA  - 2019-02-22
DO  - 10.1186/s12888-019-2054-2
KW  - Virtual reality
KW  - Exposure therapy
KW  - Cognitive predictors
LA  - eng
N1  - BMC Psychiatry 19 (2019) 80, 1-8
N1  - Finanziert durch den Open-Access-Publikationsfonds der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster (WWU Münster).
N1  - This work was supported by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific
Research (NWO; 655.010.207).
PY  - 2019-02-22
TI  - Cognitive predictors of treatment outcome for exposure therapy: do changes in self-efficacy, self-focused attention, and estimated social costs predict symptom improvement in social anxiety disorder?
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hbz:6-02129609899
Y2  - 2024-11-24T09:38:15
ER  -