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Quality of life in social phobia

✍ Scribed by Steven A. Safren; Richard G. Heimberg; Elissa J. Brown; Christian Holle

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 1996
Tongue: English
Weight: 80 KB
Volume: 4
Category: Article
ISSN: 1091-4269
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1520-6394(1996)4:3<126::aid-da5>3.0.co;2-e

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✦ Synopsis

The person's perception of his or her quality of life has been neglected in studies of mental health in general and anxiety disorders in particular. However, the judgement of the impact of a mental disorder based on symptomatic distress while ignoring one's overall quality of life is incomplete. In the present study, we examined social phobic patients' judgments of their satisfaction with various domains of life they deem important using the Quality of Life Inventory (QOLI; Frisch, unpublished). Social phobics judged their overall quality of life lower than Frisch's (unpublished) normative sample. Quality of life was inversely associated with various measures of severity of social phobia (especially social interaction anxiety), functional impairment, and depression. It was not, however, related to performance anxiety or trait anxiety. Quality of life also varied across combinations of subtype of social phobia and the presence/absence of avoidant personality disorder, and as a function of marital status. Patients showed significant improvement in quality of life scores after completion of cognitive-behavioral group therapy for social phobia.

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