Age at Onset, Precipitating Events, Sex Distribution, and Co-Occurrence of Anxiety Disorders

Scheibe, G.; Albus, Margot

doi:10.1159/000284748

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“…Prior to the 1994 DSM revision the same criteria were also listed in the child section of the manual under Overanxious Disorder (OAD). Along with specific phobias, GAD/OAD is the most commonly diagnosed anxiety disorder in non-referred youth under 18 years of age (Meltzer et al 1999;Scheibe and Albus 1992). GAD/OAD is also among the most commonly occurring comorbid conditions in youth seeking treatment for separation anxiety, social phobia, panic and obsessive compulsive disorders (Kendall et al 2010;Last et al 1992).…”

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A Pilot Investigation of Cognitive Therapy for Generalized Anxiety Disorder in Children Aged 7–17 Years

2010

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The development of treatments based on cognitive models of worry has led to improved outcomes for adults with Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD), and holds out the promise that similar improvements may be achieved for GAD further down the age range. The aim of the current study was to evaluate the effect of a GADspecific, cognitive treatment in a sample of children and adolescents with GAD. Sixteen youth (7-17 years of age) who were consecutive referrals to a specialty anxiety disorders clinic, with a primary diagnosis of DSM-IV GAD, and who were not undergoing concurrent pharmacological treatment for anxiety were provided 5 to 15 session (mean = 9.7) of cognitive therapy aimed at their tolerance for uncertainty, beliefs about worry, negative problem orientation, and cognitive avoidance strategies. All participants who entered the study completed treatment and 13 (81%) lost their GAD diagnosis (not blindly assessed); two were improved but still had GAD and one experienced no improvement at all. Age, gender and number of sessions received were unrelated to diagnostic outcome but age was positively correlated (r = 0.6, P \ .01) with pre-to-post reductions in worry frequency. The uncontrolled effect size for self-reported worry was 2.0 and for anxiety was 1.4. Further controlled evaluations of this cognitive treatment for GAD in children and adolescents are warranted.

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A Pilot Investigation of Cognitive Therapy for Generalized Anxiety Disorder in Children Aged 7–17 Years

2010

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“…Similar gender differences in epidemiological parameters have also been found within OCD (Grabe et al, 2000; Grant et al, 2010; Kolada et al, 1994; Mohammadi et al, 2004), PD (Eaton et al, 1994; Krystal et al, 1992), GAD (Hunt et al, 2002; Vesga-López et al, 2008) and SAD (Beesdo et al, 2007). In addition, several studies have documented gender differences among clinical samples of individuals with anxiety disorders (e.g., all anxiety disorders: Scheibe & Albus, 1992; Yonkers et al, 2003, PD: Clayton et al, 2006; OCD: Bogetto et al, 1999; Torresan et al, 2009, SAD: Turk et al, 1998; Yonkers et al, 2003). …”

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Gender differences in anxiety disorders: Prevalence, course of illness, comorbidity and burden of illness

McLean¹,

Asnaani²,

Litz³

et al. 2011

Journal of Psychiatric Research

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Women have consistently higher prevalence rates of anxiety disorders, but less is known about how gender affects age of onset, chronicity, comorbidity, and burden of illness. Gender differences in DSM-IV anxiety disorders were examined in a large sample of adults (N = 20,013) in the United States using data from the Collaborative Psychiatric Epidemiology Studies (CPES). The lifetime and 12-month male:female prevalence ratios of any anxiety disorder were 1:1.7 and 1:1.79, respectively. Women had higher rates of lifetime diagnosis for each of the anxiety disorders examined, except for social anxiety disorder which showed no gender difference in prevalence. No gender differences were observed in the age of onset and chronicity of the illness. However, women with a lifetime diagnosis of an anxiety disorder were more likely than men to also be diagnosed with another anxiety disorder, bulimia nervosa, and major depressive disorder. Furthermore, anxiety disorders were associated with a greater illness burden in women than in men, particularly among European American women and to some extend also among Hispanic women. These results suggest that anxiety disorders are not only more prevalent but also more disabling in women than in men.

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“…animal), social, and agoraphobic subtypes. This view was supported by Scheibe and Albus [7], who showed that there were differences between the phobia subtypes in the age of onset. The difference between neurotic depression and anxiety neurosis was also emphasized in terms o f comorbidity [8], symptomatology [9, for review see 10], and early life experiences [11].…”

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Symptoms of Neuroses: Profile Patterns and Factor Structure of Clinic Attenders with Non-Psychotic Functional Psychiatric Disorders

Kitamura

Nakamura

Miura³

et al. 1997

Psychopathology

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Consecutively referred out-patients (n = 102) with non-psychotic functional psychiatric disorders were examined. Nine syndrome scores (panic attack, phobic anxiety, generalized anxiety, obsessive-compulsive, dissociative, conversion, somatoform, depersonalization, and depressive) showed patterns corresponding to ICD-10 diagnoses. However, some also showed moderate correlations between each other. Factor analysis revealed that the nine syndrome scores could be accounted for by three factors – anxiety and somatic, depression and obsessive-compulsive, and hysterical. These findings cast doubt on the nosological specificity of the recent categorization of neurotic disorders. Furthermore, the symptom constellations identified in this study may be culture-bound.

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Age at Onset, Precipitating Events, Sex Distribution, and Co-Occurrence of Anxiety Disorders

Cited by 33 publications

References 36 publications

A Pilot Investigation of Cognitive Therapy for Generalized Anxiety Disorder in Children Aged 7–17 Years

A Pilot Investigation of Cognitive Therapy for Generalized Anxiety Disorder in Children Aged 7–17 Years

Gender differences in anxiety disorders: Prevalence, course of illness, comorbidity and burden of illness

Symptoms of Neuroses: Profile Patterns and Factor Structure of Clinic Attenders with Non-Psychotic Functional Psychiatric Disorders

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