Perceived helpfulness of treatment for social anxiety disorder: findings from the WHO World Mental Health Surveys

the WHO World Mental Health Survey Collaborators; Ronny Bruffaerts; Meredith G. Harris; Alan E. Kazdin; Daniel V. Vigo; Nancy A. Sampson; Wai Tat Chiu; Ali Al-Hamzawi; Jordi Alonso; Yasmin A. Altwaijri; Laura Andrade; Corina Benjet; Giovanni de Girolamo; Silvia Florescu; Josep Maria Haro; Chi yi Hu; Aimee Karam; Elie G. Karam; Viviane Kovess-Masfety; Sing Lee; John J. McGrath; Fernando Navarro-Mateu; Daisuke Nishi; Siobhan O’Neill; José Posada-Villa; Kate M. Scott; Margreet ten Have; Yolanda Torres; Bogdan Wojtyniak; Miguel Xavier; Zahari Zarkov; Ronald C. Kessler; Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola; Mohammed Salih Al-Kaisy; Laura Helena Andrade; Lukoye Atwoli; Guilherme Borges; Evelyn J. Bromet; Brendan Bunting; Jose Miguel Caldas-de-Almeida; Graça Cardoso; Somnath Chatterji; Alfredo H. Cia; Louisa Degenhardt; Koen Demyttenaere; Oye Gureje; Hristo Hinkov; Peter de Jonge; Aimee Nasser Karam; Norito Kawakami; David R. Williams

doi:10.1007/s00127-022-02249-3

Perceived helpfulness of treatment for social anxiety disorder: findings from the WHO World Mental Health Surveys

the WHO World Mental Health Survey Collaborators, Ronny Bruffaerts, Meredith G. Harris, Alan E. Kazdin, Daniel V. Vigo, Nancy A. Sampson, Wai Tat Chiu, Ali Al-Hamzawi, Jordi Alonso, Yasmin A. Altwaijri, Laura Andrade, Corina Benjet, Giovanni de Girolamo, Silvia Florescu, Josep Maria Haro, Chi yi Hu, Aimee Karam, Elie G. Karam, Viviane Kovess-Masfety, Sing LeeJohn J. McGrath, Fernando Navarro-Mateu, Daisuke Nishi, Siobhan O’Neill, José Posada-Villa, Kate M. Scott, Margreet ten Have, Yolanda Torres, Bogdan Wojtyniak, Miguel Xavier, Zahari Zarkov, Ronald C. Kessler^*, Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola, Mohammed Salih Al-Kaisy, Laura Helena Andrade, Lukoye Atwoli, Guilherme Borges, Evelyn J. Bromet, Brendan Bunting, Jose Miguel Caldas-de-Almeida, Graça Cardoso, Somnath Chatterji, Alfredo H. Cia, Louisa Degenhardt, Koen Demyttenaere, Oye Gureje, Hristo Hinkov, Peter de Jonge, Aimee Nasser Karam, Norito Kawakami, David R. Williams

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Purpose: To investigate the prevalence and predictors of perceived helpfulness of treatment in persons with a history of DSM-IV social anxiety disorder (SAD), using a worldwide population-based sample. Methods: The World Health Organization World Mental Health Surveys is a coordinated series of community epidemiological surveys of non-institutionalized adults; 27 surveys in 24 countries (16 in high-income; 11 in low/middle-income countries; N = 117,856) included people with a lifetime history of treated SAD. Results: In respondents with lifetime SAD, approximately one in five ever obtained treatment. Among these (n = 1322), cumulative probability of receiving treatment they regarded as helpful after seeing up to seven professionals was 92.2%. However, only 30.2% persisted this long, resulting in 65.1% ever receiving treatment perceived as helpful. Perceiving treatment as helpful was more common in female respondents, those currently married, more highly educated, and treated in non-formal health-care settings. Persistence in seeking treatment for SAD was higher among those with shorter delays in seeking treatment, in those receiving medication from a mental health specialist, and those with more than two lifetime anxiety disorders. Conclusions: The vast majority of individuals with SAD do not receive any treatment. Among those who do, the probability that people treated for SAD obtain treatment they consider helpful increases considerably if they persisted in help-seeking after earlier unhelpful treatments.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2079-2095
Number of pages	17
Journal	Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
Volume	57
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s00127-022-02249-3
Publication status	Published - Oct-2022

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Perceived helpfulness
Social anxiety disorder
Treatment

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the WHO World Mental Health Survey Collaborators, Bruffaerts, R., Harris, M. G., Kazdin, A. E., Vigo, D. V., Sampson, N. A., Chiu, W. T., Al-Hamzawi, A., Alonso, J., Altwaijri, Y. A., Andrade, L., Benjet, C., de Girolamo, G., Florescu, S., Haro, J. M., Hu, C. Y., Karam, A., Karam, E. G., Kovess-Masfety, V., ... Williams, D. R. (2022). Perceived helpfulness of treatment for social anxiety disorder: findings from the WHO World Mental Health Surveys. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 57(10), 2079-2095. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00127-022-02249-3

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In: Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, Vol. 57, No. 10, 10.2022, p. 2079-2095.

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