Table 3.
Conditional and cumulative probability of persistence with treatment after previous unhelpful attempts, among respondents with lifetime DSM-IV social anxiety disorder (SAD) who obtained treatment
| Number of professionals seen if not helped by the previous one | I. Conditional probabilities | II. Cumulative probabilities | |||||||||||||
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| All |
High-income countries |
Low/middle income countries |
All (n=991) |
High-income countries (n=876) |
Low/middle income countries (n=115) |
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| n | % | (SE) | n | % | (SE) | n | % | (SE) | % | (SE) | % | (SE) | % | (SE) | |
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| 2 | 991 | 74.6 | (1.6) | 876 | 77.3 | (1.7) | 115 | 56.6 | (4.9) | 74.6 | (1.6) | 77.3 | (1.7) | 56.6 | (4.9) |
| 3 | 520 | 80.9 | (1.7) | 473 | 80.1 | (1.9) | 47 | 87.4 | (1.9) | 60.3 | (2.2) | 61.9 | (2.3) | 49.5 | (6.6) |
| 4 | 284 | 82.3 | (2.1) | 257 | 82.5 | (2.3) | 27 | 80.8 | (4.5) | 49.6 | (2.4) | 51.0 | (2.6) | 40.0 | (6.8) |
| 5 | 173 | 85.2 | (2.1) | 160 | 85.2 | (2.3) | 13 | 85.5 | (3.1) | 42.3 | (2.7) | 43.5 | (2.9) | 34.2 | (7.3) |
| 6 | 109 | 84.2 | (3.3) | 101 | 88.0 | (2.9) | 8 | 57.5 | (14.6) | 35.6 | (2.7) | 38.3 | (2.8) | 19.7 | (8.6) |
| 7 | 69 | 84.6 | (4.4) | 66 | 83.7 | (4.6) | 3 | 100.0 | (0.0) | 30.2 | (2.9) | 32.0 | (3.1) | 19.7 | (8.6) |
Abbreviations: SE, standard error.