Showing papers in "Journal of Anxiety Disorders in 2021"

TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors investigated the relationship between perceived stress and emotional distress during the outbreak of a novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and found that higher perceived stress was associated with more emotional distress including depression, fear, compulsion-anxiety, neurasthenia, and hypochondria.

TL;DR: Although baseline contamination fear and obsessive-compulsive washing symptoms did not significantly predict coronavirus-related anxiety, contamination fear did significantly predict safety behavior usage in response to both COVID-19 and influenza.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the role of anxiety, depressive, and other mental disorders for levels and longitudinal changes of COVID-19-related fear, anxiety and depressive symptoms during the first months of the COVID19 pandemic in Germany.

TL;DR: The majority of participants with OCD were negatively affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, and the negative effects were more pronounced in washers than in non-washers.

TL;DR: Pandemics are associated with panic buying (PB) of groceries and other supplies as discussed by the authors, and panic buying occurs when people are told to go into self-isolation as part of pandemic containment interventions.

TL;DR: In this article, a systematic review aims to summarise and synthesize evidence from factor analytic and mixture modelling studies that have investigated the latent structure of the International Trauma Questionnaire.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors conducted structural equation modelling and network analysis on four scales in an online convenience sample (N = 829), along with a new scale that also assessed socio-economic worries relating to COVID-19.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed an online survey to investigate how COVID-19 has affected the OCD community, which included both quantitative and qualitative questions to assess multiple facets of how the pandemic has affected individuals with OCD symptoms.

TL;DR: Findings support use of the PCL-5 as a psychometrically sound measure of PTSD in individuals at high risk for exposure to trauma and confirmatory factor analyses indicated that the anhedonia model of PTSD best fit the data.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the roles of two psychological constructs (general risk aversion and intolerance of uncertainty) in predicting interindividual differences in fear responses and found that GRA and IU were more powerful predictors of fear responses than demographic variables.

TL;DR: In this article, a meta-analysis aimed to determine the overall rate of relapse in CBT for anxiety and related disorders, with an overall relapse rate of 14 %, which did not significantly differ between diagnoses.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined pre-coronavirus outbreak insomnia symptoms as a predictor of postcoronavalirus outbreak OCD symptoms in a sample of community adults who completed a 2016 survey study and were re-contacted on April 1, 2020 (N = 369).

TL;DR: This article found evidence to suggest moderate to high levels of COVID-related personal growth with respect to appreciation for healthcare workers, life, friends and family, and self-reliance.

TL;DR: The first evaluation of the uptake and outcomes of iCBT for health anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic was presented in this paper, where the authors compared the uptake of This Way Up's iCB course with the one before the pandemic.

TL;DR: In this article, a systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to clarify the association between social anxiety and affective (AE) and cognitive empathy (CE) and concluded that low CE might only hold for patients with SAD, but future studies are needed to verify the moderating roles of sex and type of measure.

TL;DR: This paper investigated the structure of PTSD symptoms, elements of growth, and coping styles in bereaved survivors of a major earthquake in China, and found that adaptive and active coping styles, such as positive reframing, are positively related to growth, but not appreciably negatively related to PTSD symptoms.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined both specific emotion regulation strategies and global emotion regulation difficulties in the context of acute stress following the onset of the COVID-19 global pandemic in 119 young adults.

TL;DR: In this article, 360° video exposure therapy (VRET) is explored as a novel and cost-effective mode of treatment for public speaking anxiety (PSA) and interrelated disorder relevant fears.

TL;DR: Investigation of self-reported intolerance of uncertainty as well as physiological and subjective responding to uncertain threat in a threat-of-shock paradigm, the NPU-threat test, as mediators for the relationship between mindfulness and anxiety indicated that IU mediated the effect of mindfulness on some anxiety symptoms.

TL;DR: In this paper, a meta-analysis examined the efficacy and acceptability of the two central treatment types -trauma-focused and non-trauma focused - compared with all comparators and with cognitive-behavioral manualized SUD treatments immediately post-treatment and at longest follow-up.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors found that contamination and unacceptable thoughts symptoms evidenced a unique relationship with intolerance of uncertainty, whereas a common IU factor predicted all four common OCD symptom dimensions, inhibitory IU uniquely predicted contamination/unacceptable thoughts symptoms over and above covarying effects.

TL;DR: The repeated use of the AR app reduces subjective fear in a real-life spider situation, providing a low-threshold and low-cost treatment for fear of spiders.

TL;DR: Findings support the use of a population-based approach to anxiety disorders treatment and suggest that evidence-based CBT can be implemented in the real-world setting.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors quantitatively summarize the strength of the associations of shame and guilt with posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) and explore potential moderators, concluding that culture had a marginally significant moderating effect on the relation between guilt and post-traumatic stress disorder, with a stronger association of guilt in Western culture than in Eastern culture.

TL;DR: In this paper, home-based telemedicine (HBT) may reduce logistical and stigma related barriers to mental health care, thereby reducing dropout in women who experienced sexual trauma.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared the rates of positive screens for anxiety and depressive disorders in separate U.S. national samples from 2019 and April to September 2020, including trends within demographic groups, including males, 18-to 29-year-olds, Asian Americans, and parents with children in the home.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors applied a state-of-the-art machine learning protocol (Random Forests) to evaluate the predictive utility of clinical and sociodemographic predictors for a priori identification of individual treatment response assessed directly after treatment and at 6-month follow-up.

TL;DR: TDCS was most beneficial given high phobic severity, anxiety sensitivity, and a suboptimal early response, and should be applied to more severe anxiety-related disorders, with parameters yoked to individual differences to improve outcomes in exposure-based interventions.