Prevalence of clinically significant anxiety in a family practice setting.
The Zung Self-Rating Anxiety Scale was administered to 739 consecutive patients seen in a family medicine center during a 9-month period. When a morbidity cutoff score of 50 was used, 20% of the patients were found to have clinically significant anxiety symptoms.
D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D001007:Anxiety / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology; D001008:Anxiety Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology; D005194:Family Practice; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010555:Personality Inventory