Leibowitz - Biological Treatment
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- Created on: 21-04-15 19:22
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- Leibowitz (biological treatment)
- 3 main types of drugs used to treat phobias; tranquillisers, antidepressants and beta blockers
- two anxiety scales used - the hamilton anxiety scale and the leibowitz social anxiety scale test
- patients social phobia assessed using these tests
- to see if the drug phenelzine can help treat people with social phobia
- controlled experiment
- 80 patients 15-50 years
- met DSM criteria for social phobia, medically healthy and had not received phenelzine for at least two weeks before trial.
- had no other disorders and consented to the study
- randomly allocated to one of four groups
- 1- treated with phenelzine
- 3- treated with atenolol
- 4- treated with matching placebo
- 2- treated with matching placebo
- patients assessed at start, then given treatment, then reassessed
- double blind control - independent assessors
- after 8 weeks- significant improvement in anxiety scores in phenelzine group
- anxiety scores for atenolol group same as placebo
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