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Practice Editing Here (Nov 15th in-class Wiki session work)

 * This is a place to practice clicking the "edit" button and practice adding references (via the citation button).

Task:


 * 1) Find a peer-reviewed journal article on PubMed. Practice inserting your citation in the above space using the "cite" tool
 * 2) Choose one "B-level" medical article on Wikipedia from the following list: https://wp1.openzim.org/#/project/Medicine/articles?quality=B-Class&importance=High-Class
 * 3) Practice editing live on Wikipedia by finding a typo in the text or improving the clarity/readability of a sentence by adjusting a few words in a sentence.

Assignment # 3- please post an anonymous copy here!
Wikipedia Article Title: Specific Phobia

Proposed Changes:

Change #1: Add the following sentence after “Exposure therapy is a particularly effective form of CBT for many specific phobias, however, treatment acceptance and high drop-out rates have been noted as concerns”: “In addition, a third of people who have completed exposure therapy as a treatment for specific phobia did not respond, regardless of the type of exposure therapy.”

Change #2: Add the following sentence after the list of different exposure therapies: “Treatment may be more successful at reducing symptoms in people with low trait anxiety, high motivation and high self-efficacy entering exposure therapy. In addition, high cortisol levels, high heart rate variation, evoking disgust, avoiding relaxation, focusing on cognitive changes, context variation, sleep, and memory-enhancing drugs can also reduce symptoms following exposure therapy.”

Rationale for Proposed Changes:

Rationale for Change #1: This information came from a systematic review about the factors influencing success of exposure therapy for specific phobia. Through discussion with our tutor, we noticed that information on prognosis for specific phobia when treated with exposure therapy is lacking. Upon review of the guidelines, there is no information about if treatment is successful in the long term. This additional sentence helps address this gap in the Wikipedia page.

Rationale for Change #2: Information about factors influencing the success of exposure therapy for specific phobia were previously not included in the Wikipedia page. We are adding them because they influence prognosis. This information also came from the same systematic review as mentioned in Change #1.

Controversy over Proposed Changes:

One significant controversy is that the statistic mentioned in Proposed Change #1 may only reflect the primary clinical research included in the review. Success rates may vary in other studies or in clinical practice due to study confounders that are poorly understood.

Another controversy is that as the review itself acknowledges, the list of factors quoted in Proposed Change #2 represent promising areas for future research with a narrower scope, rather than well-established, clinically relevant elements.

Critique of Source:

One potential source of bias is publication bias since all studies included in the review article had to be accepted by a peer-reviewed journal, therefore possibly selecting for results that had significant findings.

Another source of potential bias is that many of the included studies studied only one factor pertaining to specific phobias and the success of their treatment, and often these factors differed between other studies, making it difficult to compare amongst many studies.



What to post on the Wikipedia article talk page (part of assignment 3)

 * This will also be covered on Nov 15th in class. Your group should use the below template to share an outline of your proposed improvements (including your new wording and citations). Article talk pages are not places to share your assignment answers. The Wikipedia community will be more interested in viewing your exact article improvement suggestions including where you plan to improve the article (which section), what wording you suggest, and the exact citation (Note: all citations must meet WP:MEDRS)
 * You will not be able to paste citations directly from your sandbox to talk pages (unless you are interested in editing/learning Wiki-code in the "source editing" mode). We suggest re-adding your citations on the talk page manually (using the cite button and populating the citation by pasting in the DOI, website, or PMID). You will have to repeat this process yet again when you edit the actual article live.
 * Talk Page Template: CARL Medical Editing Initiative/Fall 2021/Talk Page Template