Cognitive Explanation for Anxiety Disorder. DiNardo (GAD)
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- Anxiety Disorders: Cognitive Explanation (DiNardo - GAD)
- Background
- Generalised Anxiety Disorder
- Beck 1941
- a study on generalised fears - could his patients be seen as suffering from phobias?
- Found that they didn't meet the DSM criteria for phobic reactions
- therefore considered to have had ANXIETY NEUROSES
- Found that they didn't meet the DSM criteria for phobic reactions
- a study on generalised fears - could his patients be seen as suffering from phobias?
- DiNardo 1988
- tries to find out if the faulty cognition of EXCESSIVE WORRY is linked to GAD
- Aim
- To assess whether EXCESSIVE WORRY is a symptom of GAD
- Method
- Quasi-experiment
- patients attending 1 of 3 USA clinics
- Design
- Independant mesaures design
- patients with and without diagnoses of GAD
- quasi -- pps weren't allocated to groups (no manipulation of the IV took place)
- Procedure
- pps interviewed twice to assess reliability - 2 strutured interviews used
- 1: the Anxiety Disorders Interview Schedule
- 2: the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV-R
- A 5-point rating scale
- for symptoms: sweating, insomnia, excessive worry ect.
- the frequency of 'excessive worry' was analysed. Percentage of the day for which each pps said they had that symptom was also analysed
- pps interviewed twice to assess reliability - 2 strutured interviews used
- Findings
- significantly more pps with GAD reported excessive worry than those without GAD
- GAD pps reported excessive worry 59.1% of the day
- Compared to non-GAD pps who had excessive worry 41.7% of the day
- Conclusion
- excessive worry is found more in GAD pps
- if there is no excessive worry then this could be used to rule out GAD as a diagnosis for future patients
- GAD pps experience more excessive worry during the day than non-GAD pps
- excessive worry is found more in GAD pps
- Background
- tries to find out if the faulty cognition of EXCESSIVE WORRY is linked to GAD
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