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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: Specific phobia


 * 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.

Proposed Changes
Two changes are proposed:

Add sentence prefacing how pharmacological treatments are meant to be used in interventions.


 * “pharmacological treatments are typically used in conjunction with behaviourally-focused psychotherapy, as implementing pharmacological interventions independently lead to high relapse rates”

Add sentence explaining the current pharm regimens.


 * “Different treatments are better suited for specific types of specific phobia. For instance, beta blockers are useful in those with performance anxiety, and monoamine oxidase inhibitors improve social phobia.”

Rationale for proposed changes
It is important to add this part as the potential harms of pharmacological interventions are not touched upon in the current version of the article. How to appropriately utilize medication in treating specific phobias is also not explained, and this would be addressed through the proposed sentence.

The current Wikipedia page jumps right in to discussing different treatments without context on what is most commonly used. There is also no detail on differing treatments for different types of specific phobia.

Controversy: in the previous assignment, when reviewing different clinical guidelines, none provided a standard pharmacological approach. However, the practice guidelines selected gave the most detail on what first line treatments would be used.

Critique of sources
This source is up to date, and considering it is an American clinical practice guideline written by experts, it is a good quality resource.

Citation: Reus VI. Anxiety disorders. In: Jameson J, Fauci AS, Kasper DL, Hauser SL, Longo DL, Loscalzo J, editors. Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 20th ed. McGraw Hill; 2018.

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