Evaluating a Web-Based Social Anxiety Intervention Among Community Users: Analysis of Real-World Data

Conclusions: Our results provide further evidence that Overcome Social Anxiety reduces the severity of social anxiety symptoms among those who complete it and suggest that its effectiveness extends to the general community. The completion rate is the highest documented for a fully automated intervention for anxiety, depression, or low mood in a real community sample. In addition, our results indicate that Overcome Social Anxiety reduces the severity of symptoms of depression, physiological symptoms of anxiety, and stress in addition to symptoms of social anxiety.

Source: Journal of Medical Internet Research - January 10, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: Hugh Cameron McCall Fjola Dogg Helgadottir Ross G Menzies Heather D Hadjistavropoulos Frances S Chen Source Type: research