Clinical characteristics of anxiety disordered youth.
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.
Kendall
Philip C
PC
Department of Psychology, Temple University, Child and Adolescent Anxiety Disorders Clinic, 1701 North 13th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA. pkendall@temple.edu
Compton
Scott N
SN
Walkup
John T
JT
Birmaher
Boris
B
Albano
Anne Marie
AM
Sherrill
Joel
J
Ginsburg
Golda
G
Rynn
Moira
M
McCracken
James
J
Gosch
Elizabeth
E
Keeton
Courtney
C
Bergman
Lindsey
L
Sakolsky
Dara
D
Suveg
Cindy
C
Iyengar
Satish
S
March
John
J
Piacentini
John
J
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