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Medication use and the assessment of agoraphobic avoidance |
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| Authors: | Richard P. Swinson Brian J. Cox Ian D. Shulman Klaus Kuch Carolyn B. Woszczyna |
| Affiliation: | a Anxiety Disorders Clinic, Clarke Institute of Psychiatry, 250 College Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5T 1R8 b Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 1A1 c Department of Psychology, York University, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M3J 1P3 |
| Abstract: | Many anxiety disorder patients who present for behaviour therapy are already taking anxiolytic medications. The present study added a new subscale to the Mobility Inventory labelled ‘Without Medication’ to assess possible reliance on medication for coping with phobic situations. 121 Patients with panic-related disorders were administered the scale. The results supported the reliability and validity of the existing Mobility Inventory subscales in general and of the new subscale in particular. It appears to reliably assess a clinically important domain that is not measured in traditional self-report measures of phobic avoidance. |
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