Just breathe: Towards real-time intervention for public speaking anxiety

Towards Near Real Time Public Health Surveillance

In recent years with increasing population and changing climatic conditions over the globe gave room to outbreak of different diseases, proper and timely handling of disease cases can result in saving many important human lives. Public health surveillance is the ongoing, systematic collection, analysis, interpretation and dissemination of data regarding a health-related event for use in public ...

Affect labeling enhances exposure effectiveness for public speaking anxiety.

Exposure is an effective treatment for anxiety but many patients do not respond fully. Affect labeling (labeling emotional experience) attenuates emotional responding. The current project examined whether affect labeling enhances exposure effectiveness in participants with public speaking anxiety. Participants were randomized to exposure with or without affect labeling. Physiological arousal an...

Human experimental anxiety: actual public speaking induces more intense physiological responses than simulated public speaking.

OBJECTIVES a) To perform a systematic and meta-analytic review to verify whether the Simulated Public Speaking Task (SPST) leads to a greater increase in self-rated anxiety than in physiological correlates of anxiety; and b) to compare the results obtained with the SPST with an actual public speaking task involving healthy volunteers. METHODS a) The PubMed and ISI Web of Knowledge databases w...

Just-in-time public health training and networking in Farsi-speaking countries: Influenza A (H1N1) experience.

1. Health in Emergencies & Disasters Department, School of Public Health and Institute of Public Health Research, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 2. Office of the Minister, Ministry of Public Health, Afghanistan 3. School of Sanitation and Hygiene Education, Dushanbe, Tajikistan 4. Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland USA 5. Department of ...

The Impact of Stereotypes on Public Speaking Performance and Anxiety