Social fears and social phobia in the USA: results from the National Comorbidity Survey Replication

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Canadian clinical practice guidelines for the management of anxiety, posttraumatic stress and obsessive-compulsive disorders (2014, background): “SAD is associated with significant impairments including problems with educational and occupational performance, family functioning, and an overall reduced QoL [14,15,17,354,363,365-369].”
Meta-Analysis of the Efficacy of Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy for Social Anxiety (2018, neutral): “Research findings indicate that public speaking is the most prevalent social fear (Furmark, 2002; Ruscio et al. , 2008).”
Social Anxiety Disorder as a Densely Interconnected Network of Fear and Avoidance for Social Situations (2017, background): “Until recently, ontological discourse on SAD was mainly confined to the question of whether this syndrome constitutes a discrete, categorical entity (APA 2013) or a continuum in which an increasing number of feared and avoided situations results in increasing functional impairment (e.g., Acarturk et”
A Racing Heart, Rattling Knees, and Ruminative Thoughts: Defining, Explaining, and Treating Public Speaking Anxiety (2010, background): “Readers are referred elsewhere for reviews of social phobia research (Barlow, 2008; Ruscio et al., 2008).”