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ANXIETY DISORDERS - Coggle Diagram

- - - - 7 items, 0-3 rating scale
      - developed with 2740 adult patients based on a questionnaire + a further 965 patients on telephone, via a research network of 15 primary care sites (so symptoms were severe)
      - thresholds
        
        5/21 = mild
        
        10/21 = moderate
        
        15/21 = severe
    - - 50 situations related to blood (color red/injections) + situations related to other forms of anxiety as controls
      - 0-3 scale on frequency of symptoms - reactions also tested
- - - - 81 blood-phobic & 59 injection-phobic pts tested via behavioral tests of either a surgery video (gaze direction measured of the blood phobic pts) or a self-prick instructional with 20 steps (# of steps done measured for injection phobic pts)
        
        screening interview, questionnaire, family history - maximal performance of pts was measured in the form of observation (fainting behavior) + self-reports (anxiety) + health metrics (blood pressure, heart rate)
    - - tested rhesus monkeys' fear of animals they had never seen before (crocodile/snake or flower/rabbit) after watching conspecifics show fear towards all organisms => results support the theory that phobia is innate & evolutionary
  - - - 790 female psych students
      - Fear Survey Schedule --> rate anxiety out of 8 when approached by a black Labrador with a handler --> structured interview, examine origins of dog phobia
        
        RESULTS: 16 rated anxiety 2+, 21 rated anxiety <2
        
        Conditioning events (painful or scary encounters with dogs) reported by 56% of those with phobia
        
        APPRAISAL & RATIONALIZATION - BELIEF OF IMPENDING BITES OR SCRATCHES
    - - Little Hans (5y/o Austrian boy) who suffered a phobia of horses diagnosed with Oedipus complex, cured through identification with his father