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Med."],"published-print":{"date-parts":[[1999,1]]},"abstract":"<jats:p>\n                    <jats:bold>Background.<\/jats:bold>\n                    The present study provides data on the reliability,\n validity and treatment sensitivity of \nthe Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale (LSAS), one of the most commonly used\n clinician-administered \nscales for the assessment of social phobia.\n                  <\/jats:p>\n                  <jats:p>\n                    <jats:bold>Method.<\/jats:bold>\n                    Three hundred and eighty-two patients from several\n studies of the treatment of social \nphobia were evaluated. An independent assessor administered the LSAS to\n each patient prior to the \ninitiation of treatment. Patients also completed other measures of social\n anxiety and avoidance, \nalthough the specific measures varied across samples.\n                  <\/jats:p>\n                  <jats:p>\n                    <jats:bold>Results.<\/jats:bold>\n                    The LSAS and its subscales were normally distributed\n and demonstrated excellent internal \nconsistency. The convergent validity of the LSAS was demonstrated via significant\n correlations with \nother commonly-used measures of social anxiety and avoidance. These correlations\n also tended to \nbe larger than correlations with measures of depression, especially after\n treatment. However, the \npattern of correlations of LSAS subscales with one another and with the\n other measures suggest that \nthe fear subscales and the avoidance subscales may not be sufficiently\n distinct in clinical samples. \nThe LSAS was also demonstrated to be sensitive to the effects of pharmacological\n treatments of \nsocial phobia over time and in comparison to double-blind pill placebo.\n                  <\/jats:p>\n                  <jats:p>\n                    <jats:bold>Conclusion.<\/jats:bold>\n                    The LSAS appears to be a reliable, valid and treatment\n sensitive measure of social \nphobia. Further study of the LSAS, both in samples with severe social phobia\n and in community \nsamples, is needed.\n                  <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1017\/s0033291798007879","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2002,7,27]],"date-time":"2002-07-27T09:33:33Z","timestamp":1027762413000},"page":"199-212","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":761,"title":["Psychometric properties of the Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale"],"prefix":"10.1017","volume":"29","author":[{"given":"R. G.","family":"HEIMBERG","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"K. J.","family":"HORNER","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"H. R.","family":"JUSTER","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"S. 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