Symptomatology and comorbidity of generalized anxiety disorder in children and adolescents
Autor: | Roberta Romano, Maria Mucci, Letizia Favilla, Gabriele Masi, Paola Poli |
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Jazyk: | angličtina |
Rok vydání: | 1999 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Generalized anxiety disorder Adolescent lcsh:RC435-571 Irritability Severity of Illness Index Catchment Area Health Anxiety Separation lcsh:Psychiatry Severity of illness medicine Prevalence Humans Psychiatry Child Psychiatric Status Rating Scales Separation anxiety disorder medicine.disease Comorbidity Anxiety Disorders Self Concept Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology El Niño Italy Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity Attention Deficit and Disruptive Behavior Disorders Anxiety Female medicine.symptom Psychology Anxiety disorder Clinical psychology |
Zdroj: | Comprehensive Psychiatry, Vol 40, Iss 3, Pp 210-215 (1999) |
Popis: | This study investigated the symptomatology and comorbidity of generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) in a clinically referred sample of Italian children and adolescents as a function of age and gender. The sample consisted of 58 subjects (19 children and 39 adolescents), 23 males and 35 females screened from consecutively referred children and adolescents. This sample was divided into two groups of younger children (19 subjects, eight males and 11 females aged 7 to 12 years; mean age, 9.6) and adolescents (39 subjects, 15 males and 24 females aged 12 to 18 years; mean age, 14.9). Feelings of tension, apprehension, the need for reassurance, irritability, negative self-image, and physical complaints were reported in more than 70% of the subjects. Differences in the symptomatic profile between males and females were not significant. Children and adolescents did not show significant differences in the number of symptoms. The need for reassurance was significantly more frequent in children, and brooding was more frequent in adolescents. Other anxiety disorders were commonly comorbid with GAD. More than half of the patients with GAD showed a concurrent depressive disorder; no differences were found for comorbidity between children and adolescents, except for higher rates of separation anxiety disorder in children. |
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