Does patient reluctance towards exposure and psychologists' attitudes about evidence based practice influence treatment recommendations for panic disorder? An experimental investigation

Autor: Crystal Ford, Nikolaos Kazantzis, Chiara Paganini, Frank M. Dattilio, Davide Farchione
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: Journal of anxiety disorders. 51
ISSN: 1873-7897
Popis: This study examined the effects of patient reluctance towards exposure on practitioners' subsequent treatment recommendations. Participants (N=236) were doctoral level psychologists who received a vignette of a patient with panic disorder, which either did (experimental group) or did not (control group) mention patient reluctance towards exposure. Evidence Based Practice (EBP) attitudes were also assessed and taken into account. A significant main effect of reluctance, averaged across all levels of EBP attitudes, and theoretical orientations was obtained (OR=2.85, 95% CI=[1.51, 5.39], p=0.001, RR=1.46), with controls 1.46 times more likely to recommend exposure. A significant main effect of EBP attitudes was also obtained (p
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