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Prognostic Factors in the Behavioral Treatment of Agoraphobia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 June 2009

Lars Jansson ,
Lars-Göran Öst  and
Anita Jerremalm
Lars Jansson
Affiliation:
Psychiatric Research Center, University of Uppsala, Sweden
Lars-Göran Öst
Affiliation:
Psychiatric Research Center, University of Uppsala, Sweden
Anita Jerremalm
Affiliation:
Psychiatric Research Center, University of Uppsala, Sweden
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Abstract

A multiple linear regression analysis was made on behavioral, questionnaire and other data from 40 agoraphobic patients, who participated in a behavioral outcome study. The dependent variable was treatment outcome as determined by changes in behavioral, subjective and physiological data after treatment and at 7-month and 15-month follow-up. The main predictors of outcome were self-rated anxiety and heart-rate at a behavioral test, and scores on the Autonomic Perception Questionnaire and Fear Survey Schedule-III, all related to the phobia. However, both level of depression and marital relationship were found to be weak predictors.

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Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy , Volume 15 , Issue 1 , January 1987 , pp. 31 - 44
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Copyright © British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies 1987

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