Richard P. Swinson

TL;DR: Lovibond et al. as discussed by the authors examined the factor structure, reliability, and validity of the Depression Anxiety Stress Scales (DASS; S. H. Lovibond & P. F. Lempitsky, 1995) and the 21-item short form of these measures, and found that the DASS distinguishes well between features of depression, physical arousal, and psychological tension and agitation.

TL;DR: Overall, the results offered good support for the notion that the trait scale of the STAI assesses depression, as well as anxiety.

TL;DR: Alprazolam was found to be effective and well tolerated in patients with agoraphobia with panic attacks and panic disorder and significantly more placebo recipients subsequently dropped out of the trial, primarily citing ineffectiveness of placebo as the reason.

TL;DR: By the end of treatment, though gains on alprazolam were largely as in previous studies, on phobias and disability they were half those with exposure, whereas gains persisted to six-month follow-up after exposure ceased.

TL;DR: Compared to the other groups, social phobia was associated with greater concern about mistakes (CM), doubts about actions (DA), and parental criticism (PC) on one measure and more socially prescribed perfectionism (SP) on the other measure and the remaining dimensions of perfectionism failed to differentiate among groups.