Table 2 Lifetime prevalence of Social Phobia in the general population of Europe and USA.
Country | Reference | Diagnostic criteria | N | Male | Female | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Italy | Faravelli et al., 1989 [4] | DSM-III-R | 1110 | 1.0 | ||
Switzerland | Wacker et al., 1992 [16] | DSM-III-R | 470 | 16.0 | ||
ICD-10 | 9.6 | |||||
ECA (USA) | Schneier et al., 1992 [15] | DIS | 18571 | 2.0 | 3.1 | 2.4 |
Iceland | Lindal and Stefansson, 1993 [32] | DSM-III | 862 | 2.5 | 4.5 | 3.5 |
Switzerland | Degonda and Angst, 1993 [21] | DSM-III | 591 | 3.1 | 5.7 | 4.4 |
NCS (USA) | Kessler et al., 1994 [17] | CIDI | 8098 | 11.1 | 15.5 | 13.3 |
France | Lepine and Lellouch, 1995 [19] | 2.1 | 5.4 | 4.1 | ||
Germany | Wittchen et al., 1998 [23] | DSM-IV | 3021 | 2.2 | 4.8 | 3.5 |
Italy | Carta and Rudas, 1998 [6] | CIDI | 783 | 1.7 | 4.6 | 3.1 |
Spain | Arillo et al., 1998 [cited in 33] | DIS | 237 | 8.9 | ||
Netherlands | Bijl et al., 1998 [20] | DSM-III-R | 7076 | 5.9 | 9.7 | 7.8 |
France | Lépine and Pélissolo, 1999 [22] | DSM-IV | 7.3 | |||
Italy | Faravelli et al., 2000 [5] | FPI/CIDI | 2355 | 1.9 | 4.0 | 3.1 |
Italy | Carta et al., 2002 [7] | CIDI | 1040 | 1.5 | 2.8 | 2.2 |