Self-help Books for Social Anxiety

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Conditions studied: Social Anxiety

In brief

The goal of this study is to compare the efficacy and mechanisms of change of two self-help books for social anxiety in college students in a randomized controlled trial. One book is based on traditional cognitive behavioral therapy and one is based on acceptance and commitment therapy. This study will test the following hypotheses: Hypothesis 1: The CBT and ACT book conditions will both experience decreased social anxiety and distress. Life satisfaction and values progress will increase in both conditions. Hypothesis 2: The CBT condition will result in greater use of reappraisal, the ACT condition will not. Hypothesis 3: The ACT condition will result in greater use of defusion and decreased psychological inflexibility; the CBT condition will not. Hypothesis 4: Changes in experiential avoidance and defusion will predict changes in social anxiety and values progress in the ACT condition. Hypothesis 5: Changes in reappraisal will predict changes in social anxiety in the CBT condition. Change in values progress will be predicted by change in social anxiety in the CBT condition. Hypothesis 6: The association between social anxiety/negative affect and values progress will decrease or disappear in the ACT condition (i.e., decoupling), and remain the same in the CBT condition.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT03297619

Run by

Utah State University

People needed

109

Starts

2017-09-16

Expected to finish

2019-01-02

Last updated by the study team

2019-11-13

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Age 18 or older
• Enrolled at Utah State University
• Have not participated in other self-help studies run by the USU CBS Lab
• Interested in using self-help book for social anxiety
• Scoring at least a 6 on the Mini Social Phobia Inventory (Mini-SPIN), a validated social anxiety screening measure

You may not qualify if…

• Exclusion criteria mirror inclusion criteria: below the age of 18, not a student at Utah State University, have participated in previous self-help studies run by the CBS Lab, not interested in using a self-help book for social anxiety, or scoring a 5 or lower on the Mini-SPIN.

Where it is running

• Utah State University — Logan, Utah, United States

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