Six of the 45 patients (13 %) had a relapse of social phobia at some time during follow-up.
Linking self-reported childhood behavioral inhibition to adolescent social phobia.
Overanxious disorder and avoidant disorder now are subsumed under generalized anxiety disorder and social phobia, respectively.
In female- female pairs, a similar pattern was seen except with social phobia, where correlations were similar in the two twin groups.
These disorders included : generalized anxiety disorder, social phobia, specific phobia and panic disorder with or without agoraphobia.
As noted, specific phobics had been less severely ill than other phobia types at baseline and remained so after treatment (data not shown).
Many of the odds ratios quantifying the relationship between the childhood factors and social phobia in this analysis were considerably attenuated but remained important.
The fourth column displays odds ratios and confidence intervals comparing individuals with current social phobia to individuals with no lifetime history of the disorder.
