Intensive group cognitive therapy and individual cognitive therapy for social phobia: Sustained improvement at 5-year follow-up

- The effects of IGCT and ICT are maintained/improved at 5 years post-treatment.
- Clinically significant improvement and loss of a social phobia diagnosis was shown by approximately 50-70% of patients.
- ICT was superior to IGCT on measures of depression but the two treatments did not differ on measures of social phobia.
- Quality of life in treated patients with social phobia was inferior to a healthy population.