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Study 7: telephone anxiety and call avoidance

First look, October 9, 2026

The first look of Study 7 - Stage A covers the 464 responses received from September 28 to October 7, 2026. It is a preliminary result of an ongoing study, and the figures describe the people who answered, not the general population. The report gives the results for all respondents and for every group.

About the study

Stage A is the anonymous, community-recruited survey "How do phone calls feel to you?" It measures how common phone anxiety and call avoidance are among adults, overall and in groups defined by ADHD and autism status: diagnosed, suspected, or neither. It also records anxiety status, so that groups can be compared among people who report none. Every group is described in its own right; there is no control group.

The survey is open to adults worldwide, takes about three minutes, collects no names, email addresses or IP addresses, and offers no reward. The sample is self-selected, so the figures describe the people who answered, not the general population. Comparisons between groups are more robust than any single percentage. A general-population panel (Stage B) is planned separately.

Results are published here: a first look during Finnish ADHD week in October 2026, a full Wave 1 report after October 31, 2026 as Addendum 1 to the white paper "The Case for Health Communications Technology" (DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21978705), and later waves yearly. Each report comes with the anonymized dataset and analysis code under CC BY 4.0, so anyone can check or extend the work.

The study was preregistered on the Open Science Framework before any data were collected: https://osf.io/8t473 (DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/8T473).

Study 7 is the first study of the Institute for The Study Of Humanity, a research initiative of Maximized Impact ry, a Finnish registered association. Studies 1 to 6 are proposed in the white paper.

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