title: Clinical characteristics of anxiety disordered youth.
abstract: Reports the characteristics of a large, representative sample of treatment-seeking anxious youth (N=488). Participants, aged 7-17 years (mean 10.7 years), had a principal DSM-IV diagnosis of separation anxiety disorder (SAD), generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), or social phobia (SP). Although youth with a co-primary diagnosis for which a different disorder-specific treatment would be indicated (e.g., major depressive disorder, substance abuse) were not included, there were few other exclusion criteria. Participants and their parent/guardian underwent an extensive baseline assessment using a broad array of measures capturing diagnostic status, anxiety symptoms and severity, and areas of functional impairment. Means and standard deviations of the measures of psychopathology and data on diagnostic status are provided. The sample had moderate to severe anxiety disorder and was highly comorbid, with 55.3% of participants meeting criteria for at least one non-targeted DSM-IV disorder. Anxiety disorders in youth often do not present as a single/focused disorder: such disorders in youth overlap in symptoms and are highly comorbid among themselves.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Temple University, Child and Adolescent Anxiety Disorders Clinic, 1701 North 13th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA. pkendall@temple.edu
authors.forename: Philip C
authors.initials: PC
authors.lastname: Kendall
authors.forename: Scott N
authors.initials: SN
authors.lastname: Compton
authors.forename: John T
authors.initials: JT
authors.lastname: Walkup
authors.forename: Boris
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Birmaher
authors.forename: Anne Marie
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Albano
authors.forename: Joel
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Sherrill
authors.forename: Golda
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Ginsburg
authors.forename: Moira
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Rynn
authors.forename: James
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: McCracken
authors.forename: Elizabeth
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Gosch
authors.forename: Courtney
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Keeton
authors.forename: Lindsey
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Bergman
authors.forename: Dara
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Sakolsky
authors.forename: Cindy
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Suveg
authors.forename: Satish
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Iyengar
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: March
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Piacentini
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001008:Anxiety Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy; D001010:Anxiety, Separation / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy; D002648:Child; D015897:Comorbidity; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D039721:Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010552:Personality Assessment / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D010698:Phobic Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy; D011594:Psychometrics; D014481:United States