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