Comorbidity among Childhood Anxiety Disorders
This paper reports on 73 consecutive admissions to an outpatient anxiety disorder clinic for children and adolescents. Patients were evaluated with a structured diagnostic interview for primary and secondary disorders with DSM-III criteria in order to examine patterns of comorbidity. The most common...
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Veröffentlicht in: | The journal of nervous and mental disease 1987-12, Vol.175 (12), p.726-730 |
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Zusammenfassung: | This paper reports on 73 consecutive admissions to an outpatient anxiety disorder clinic for children and adolescents. Patients were evaluated with a structured diagnostic interview for primary and secondary disorders with DSM-III criteria in order to examine patterns of comorbidity. The most common primary diagnoses for the sample included separation anxiety disorder (33%), overanxious disorder (15%), social phobia of school (15%), and major depression (15%). Children with a primary diagnosis of separation anxiety disorders were most likely to receive a concurrent diagnosis of overanxious disorder. Alternatively, children with a primary diagnosis of overanxious disorder were most likely to receive an additional diagnosis indicative of a social anxiety problem, either social phobia or avoidant disorder. Children with a primary major depression most often exhibited social phobia and/ or overanxious disorder. No clear-cut pattern of comorbidity emerged for the social phobic (school) group. These findings are discussed in terms of their comparability with results recently obtained from an adult anxiety clinic population. |
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ISSN: | 0022-3018 1539-736X |
DOI: | 10.1097/00005053-198712000-00004 |