This article is the presentation of the main phobia data from the Epidemiologic Catchment
Area (ECA) program, with a sample size of n= 18,571. Work on this article was initiated in …

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the frequency and phenomenology of clinical, subsyndromal,
and subthreshold phobias in young adolescents. Method: A two-stage epidemiological study …

A five-year follow-up of 30 phobics originally identified in a population survey, revealed that
untreated phobia tends to improve. Children's phobias improve quickly, 100% being …

Although the past decade has witnessed an evolution in the way in which the psychological
and psychiatric communities conceptualize the childhood anxiety disorders …

Discusses the prevalence of anxiety disorders in community and clinical settings. A review of
13 surveys indicates that community prevalence for all anxiety disorders was 2.9–8.4 …

This study determined the prevalence, age of onset, comorbidity, and impairment associated
with specific phobia subtypes in the community. Data were drawn from the Dresden Mental …

The present article summarizes theory and data about symptomatology, epidemiology, and
etiology of specific phobias. Additionally, the cognitive mechanisms involved in specific …

Analyses of gender differences in phobias are presented based on Wave 1 of the five-site
ECA community survey. A total of 18,572 respondents, aged 18 and over, were questioned …

We examine the phenomenology, epidemiology, and aetiology of specific phobias in this
brief review. In general terms, a specific phobia exists when fear of a specific object or …

Few community-based field studies have examined racial differences in the prevalence of
phobia disorders. Using data from two sites of a large epidemiologic survey, this study …