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The Anxiety and Illness Behaviours Laboratory (AIBLab) is part of the Department of Psychology at the University of Regina. It is run under the direction of Gordon J. G. Asmundson, Ph.D., R.D. Psych, FRSC and comprises campus and hospital-based (Regina Qu'Appelle Health Region) laboratories. Students working in the AIBLab come from the Clinical Psychology program in the Faculty of Arts as well as from the Faculty of Kinesiology and Health Studies at the University of Regina.
AIBLab researchers and our colleagues are currently conducting investigations designed to better understand fear of pain and movement (i.e., kinesiophobia), health anxiety, posttraumatic stress disorder, social anxiety disorder, and the associations between each of these and chronic pain and disability. This research is supported by a variety of grants from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research as well as other external funding agencies.
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Health Anxiety
Do you worry a lot about your health or fear that you have a serious illness? The Anxiety and Illness Behaviours Lab is seeking 84 volunteers for a study investigating health anxiety. Volunteers will receive 8 weeks of cognitive-behaviour therapy based self-help treatment supervised by trained staff. Volunteers must be over 18 years of age. To see if you qualify for the Health Anxiety Study please call 306-337-2473
Click here for more information about the HEALTH ANXIETY STUDY
Fibromyalgia
We are inviting individuals between the age of 18 and 66 years who have been diagnosed with Fibromyalgia by a registered medical doctor (physician) to participate in treatment research. Each participant will be randomly assigned to either an active condition or a placebo condition; however, neither the participant nor the researcher will know which condition a participant was assigned to until after the study is completed. If the results support the treatment effectiveness, participants in the placebo condition will be offered participation in the treatment. We are only accepting 40 participants for this initial study.
If you wish to participate in this research, please complete the questionnaire by clicking the link below:
Fibromyalgia Questionnaire
Social Anxiety
We are looking for healthy volunteers to participate in research on anxiety. Did you know that you could help to develop innovative treatments for people who suffer from significant levels of anxiety?
We want to hear from you if:
If you wish to participate in this research, please contact our lab at 337-2473 or at anxiety.lab@uregina.ca
If you have already spoken with a lab member and are trying to access the study survey, please click the link below:
Social Anxiety Participant Survey
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Operating Mission and Philosophy |
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The mission of the AIBLab is to increase our understanding of the nature of anxiety and related disorders and to contribute to the development and empirical evaluation of methods for their treatment.
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The AIBLab is a teaching laboratory, with an explicit focus on training advanced undergraduate and graduate students in the development of scientific values and skills. This approach is based on the assumption that the critical examination of subject matter and utilization of empirical methods to answer questions about mental and physical health will be the most fruitful in making strides toward alleviating human suffering.
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An overarching instructional aim is to help students become versatile and complete clinical scientists and health practitioners.
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