EMDR FORUM ARCHIVE, 2000
EMDR for panic disorder with agoraphobia
Thomas Landry · 01/17/01 at 8:01 ET
Pardon my prior post when I mixed up subject and author.
> 1: J Consult Clin Psychol 2000 Dec;68(6):947-956.
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> EMDR for panic disorder with agoraphobia: comparison with waiting list and
> credible attention-placebo control conditions.
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> Goldstein AJ, de Beurs E, Chambless DL, Wilson KA
> Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
> 27599-3270, USA. alangold@email.unc.edu
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> In a randomized controlled trial, eye movement desensitization and
> reprocessing (EMDR) for panic disorder with agoraphobia (PDA) was compared
> with both waiting list and credible attention-placebo control groups. EMDR
> was significantly better than waiting list for some outcome measures
> (questionnaire, diary, and interview measures of severity of anxiety, panic
> disorder, and agoraphobia) but not for others (panic attack frequency and
> anxious cognitions). However, low power and, for panic frequency, floor
> effects may account for these negative results. Differences between EMDR and
> the attention-placebo control condition were not statistically significant on
> any measure, and, in this case, the effect sizes were generally small (eta2 =
> .00-.06), suggesting the poor results for EMDR were not due to lack of power.
> Because there are established effective treatments such as cognitive-behavior
> therapy for PDA, these data, unless contradicted by future research, indicate
> EMDR should not be the first-line treatment for this disorder.
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