Treatment Seeking for Social Anxiety

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Social Anxiety
• Interventions: Behavioral: Psychoeducation; Behavioral: Motivation

• Registration Number: NCT04196296
• Lead Sponsor: University of Colorado, Boulder

Brief Summary

This study developed and then compared via randomized trial two brief online interventions targeting increasing treatment-seeking behavior in social anxiety.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2016-03-28
• Primary Completion: 2016-07-06
• Study Completion: 2016-07-06
• Study First Submitted: 2019-11-27
• Status Verified: 2019-12
• Study First Submitted QC: 2019-12-10
• Last Update Submitted: 2019-12-10
• Study First Posted: 2019-12-12
• Last Update Posted: 2019-12-12

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 919

Inclusion Criteria

• High social anxiety (score >30 on Social Phobia Inventory (SPIN) Connor et al., 2000)
• Fluent in English
• Amazon Mechanical Turk HIT approval rate > 95%
• Amazon Mechanical Turk account listed as US resident

Exclusion Criteria

• Already enrolled in target treatments (i.e. CBT for social anxiety, using social anxiety self-help book, or participating in online treatment for social anxiety)
• Indicating that they would "never consider" treatment for social anxiety

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Psychoeducation plus Motivation Enhancement	Motivation	-
Psychoeducation	Psychoeducation	-
Psychoeducation plus Motivation Enhancement	Psychoeducation	-

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Treatment seeking motivations: Attitudes toward seeking treatment for social anxiety.	Change from baseline to one-month follow-up	Affective attitudes toward seeking treatment for social anxiety were assessed using a standard 7-item 1-7 semantic differential scale in which participants rated "seeking treatment for social anxiety in the next month would be" according to opposite adjective pairs (e.g., "Unhealthy"/"Healthy"). Possible scores range from 7-49, with higher scores indicating more favorable attitudes toward seeking treatment for social anxiety.
Treatment seeking motivations: Perceived behavioral control/confidence regarding seeking treatment for social anxiety.	Change from baseline to one-month follow-up	Paralleling the intentions scale above, the present study developed a measure of perceived behavioral control regarding seeking treatment for social anxiety, as the existing literature lacked a sufficient and specific measure. The resulting scale includes 14 total items assessment perceived ability to seek treatment for social anxiety in the following month. Items were rated using Likert scales from 1 ("strongly disagree") to 7 ("strongly agree"), with higher scores indicating greater perceived ability to seek treatment for social anxiety.
Treatment seeking motivations: Intentions to seek treatment for social anxiety.	Change from baseline to one-month follow-up	As the existing literature lacks a sufficient and specific scale for assessing intentions to seek treatment, we developed a scale based on the Theory of Planned Behavior (https://doi.org/10.1016/0749-5978(91)90020-T) as well as crucial steps toward seeking treatment identified previously (https://doi.org/10.1016/S0887-6185(02)00259-1). The resulting scale includes 13 total items assessing intentions to seek treatment for social anxiety in the following month. Items were rated using Likert scales from 1 ("strongly disagree"/"not very likely") to 7 ("strongly agree"/"very likely"), with higher scores indicating greater intention to seek treatment for social anxiety within the following month.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Treatment seeking behaviors	One-month follow-up	Checklist of behavioral steps toward seeking treatment within specific domains (i.e. in-person treatment, bibliotherapy, online-treatment, medication, and alternative treatments). Because the existing literature lacks a treatment-seeking behavior questionnaire, we developed a behavioral checklist adapted from Buckner and Schmidt (2009; doi: 10.1016/j.brat.2009.04.009). The measure included 19 total treatment-seeking behaviors across the above listed domains, and as such scores could range from 0 (no steps taken toward seeking treatment since intervention) to 19 (every listed step toward every type of treatment taken since the intervention). Higher scores are considered the better outcome in the present study.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

University of Colorado Boulder; 🇺🇸 Boulder, Colorado, United States