CoChat
Sign Up
Cited by 435Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive ProcessesMental Health Treatment and AccessChild and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development

The epidemiology of social phobia: Findings from the Duke Epidemiological Catchment Area Study

Davidson, J. R. T., Hughes, D. L., George, L. K., Blazer, D. G.·1993·Psychological Medicine
DOI 10.1017/s0033291700025484
Open this paper in CoChat — free account

Abstract

Social phobia was studied in a North Carolina community, using DSM-III criteria. Two kinds of comparison were made: social phobia v. non-social phobia, and comorbid social phobia v. non-comorbid social phobia. Six-month and lifetime prevalence rates were 2.7 and 3.8% respectively. Social phobia had an early onset, lasted a long time and rarely recovered. Predictors of good outcome recovery in a logistic regression analysis were onset of phobia after age 11, absence of psychiatric comorbidity and greater education. The disorder was often missed in medical consultation. Increased rates of psychiatric comorbidity existed, especially for other anxiety disorders and for schizophrenia/schizophreniform disorder. There was increased risk of neurological disorder. Social phobia was also associated with an increased rate of suicide attempts, antisocial behaviour and impaired school performance during adolescence, impaired medical health, increased health-seeking behaviour, poor employment performance, reduced social interaction and impaired social support. Comorbidity accounted for some, but not all observed differences.

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1017/s0033291700025484

Cites

31 of 31 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Recomputing p-values needs the paper’s full text.

Claims the paper makes

This paper’s full text isn’t openly available, so its claims and self-check weren’t run. The registry and citation checks still apply.

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

  • Social anxiety is linked with deterioration in adolescents' functioning including hampered social and personal relationships, school absenteeism or dropout, depression, suicide, substance abuse, and increased behavioral problems such as fighting and cheating.

    “Social anxiety is linked with deterioration in adolescents’ functioning including: hampered social and personal relationships, school absenteeism or dropout, depression, suicide, substance abuse, and increased behavioral problems such as fighting, and cheating [11–15].”

    From Social support, emotion regulation and mindfulness: A linkage towards social anxiety among adolescents attending secondary schools in Birgunj, Nepal (2020) · cites this paper as [13]

Cites

Flagged first, then by citations

Cited by

Sorted by citations

Related

Authors
Davidson, J. R. T., Hughes, D. L., George, L. K., & Blazer, D. G.
Affiliations
Duke Medical Center (US)
Corresponding author
Davidson, J. R. T.
ORCID
Venue
Psychological Medicine
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Published
1993-08
Volume
23
Issue
3
Pages
709-718
ISSN
  • 0033-2917 (ISSN-L)
  • 1469-8978
DOI
10.1017/s0033291700025484
OpenAlex
W2137886748
Cited by
435
References
31
Citations by year
2026: 3 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 3 · 2022: 6 · 2021: 12 · 2020: 10 · 2019: 5 · 2018: 9 · 2017: 7 · 2016: 14 · 2015: 10 · 2014: 20 · 2013: 19 · 2012: 15
FWCI
9.14
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
www.cambridge.org/core/terms (unspecified, 5821 d)
Locations
  • Psychological Medicine (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
  • National Institutes of Health (5u01mh035386-05)
  • National Institute of Mental Health (UO1MH35386)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Mental Health Treatment and Access
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
Keywords
social anxiety disorder, prevalence, psychiatric comorbidity, anxiety disorders, schizophrenia, neurological disorders, suicide attempts, antisocial behavior, academic performance, health-seeking behavior, employment performance, social support, predictors of recovery, age of onset, educational attainment
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Adult, Age Factors, Mental Disorders, Educational Status, Employment, Family, Female, Health Status, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Mothers, Patient Acceptance of Health Care, Phobic Disorders, Prognosis, Sex Factors, Social Support, Socialization, Socioeconomic Factors, United States, Comorbidity, Prevalence, Age of Onset

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review