Perceived helpfulness of treatment for specific phobia: Findings from the World Mental Health Surveys.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Although randomized trials show that specific phobia treatments can be effective, it is unclear whether patients experience treatment as helpful in clinical practice. We investigated this issue by assessing perceived treatment helpfulness for specific phobia in a cross-national epidemiological survey.

Methods

Cross-sectional population-based WHO World Mental Health (WMH) surveys in 24 countries (n=112,507) assessed lifetime specific phobia. Respondents who met lifetime criteria were asked whether they ever received treatment they considered helpful and the number of professionals seen up to the time of receiving helpful treatment. Discrete-event survival analysis was used to calculate conditional-cumulative probabilities of obtaining helpful treatment across numbe

SUBMITTER: de Vries YA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8154701 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature