简短的社会焦虑障碍的想象性暴露练习:自助瞬间干预应用程序的随机对照试验
Jeremy T Schwob1, Michelle G Newman1
1The Pennsylvania State University, USA.
Journal of anxiety disorders
|August 5, 2023
概括
一个使用图像曝光 (IE) 的智能手机应用程序有效地减少了社会焦虑,并提高了成年人的自我效能. 对IE练习的更高坚持预测了社会焦虑障碍的更好的结果.
科学领域:
- 心理学 心理学 心理学
- 数字健康数字健康
- 临床心理学 临床心理学
背景情况:
- 技术干预对心理障碍越来越重要.
- 自助干预措施,如影像暴露 (IE),为管理社会焦虑提供了可访问的工具.
- 智能手机应用程序为提供可扩展的心理健康干预提供了一个平台.
研究的目的:
- 评估一种新型智能手机应用程序的可行性和有效性,该应用程序可以提供图像曝光 (IE) 练习.
- 与自我监测条件相比,评估IE对社交互动焦虑和自我效能的影响.
- 为了确定是否坚持干预预测治疗结果.
主要方法:
- 一项随机试验涉及82名被诊断患有社会焦虑障碍的成年人.
- 参与者被分配到一周的影像曝光 (IE) 或通过智能手机应用程序进行自我监测.
- 混合效应模型被用来分析社会焦虑和自我效能的变化.
主要成果:
- 与自我监测组相比,图像曝光 (IE) 组在社会焦虑中显示出明显更大的减少.
- 在IE组的参与者也表现出明显更大的自我效能增加.
- 坚持IE练习是社会焦虑和自我效能积极变化的重要预测因素.
结论:
- 一个简短的智能手机交付的影像曝光 (IE) 干预措施对社交互动焦虑是有效的.
- 这些发现支持使用数字工具来自我帮助管理社会焦虑障碍.
- 坚持是基于应用程序的心理干预成功的一个关键因素.
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