Treatment Seeking for Social Anxiety

Brief Online Interventions to Facilitate Treatment Seeking for Social Anxiety

This study developed and then compared via randomized trial two brief online interventions targeting increasing treatment-seeking behavior in social anxiety.

Inclusion Criteria:

• High social anxiety (score >30 on Social Phobia Inventory (SPIN) Connor et al., 2000)
• Fluent in English
• Amazon Mechanical Turk HIT approval rate > 95%
• Amazon Mechanical Turk account listed as US resident

Exclusion Criteria:

• Already enrolled in target treatments (i.e. CBT for social anxiety, using social anxiety self-help book, or participating in online treatment for social anxiety)
• Indicating that they would "never consider" treatment for social anxiety