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A Comparison Between Internet Therapy and Group Therapy for Social Phobia - A Trial Using Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

NCT00564967 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE3 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 128

Last updated 2010-10-26

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Social phobia 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 phobia.

To the investigator´s knowledge, no study has yet directly compared live-CBT to Internet therapy. The aim of the present study is to compare the effect of live CBT vs CBT delivered via the Internet. The study is considered to be an equivalence trial. 128 patients will be randomly assigned to one of the two treatment conditions. The primary outcome measure is Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale (LSAS).

Conditions

  • Social Phobia

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

CBT via the Internet

15 weeks, patients learn about CBT primarily thru a self-help book published on teh Internet, Minimal therapy contact via e-mail(10 minutes/week),

BEHAVIORAL

CBT group therapy

15 weeks, 1 session/week, (2,5 hours.)

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • nils lindefors · Karolinska Institutet

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
16 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2007-11-30
Primary Completion
2010-08-31
Completion
2010-08-31

Countries

  • Sweden

Study Locations

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