title: Daily living skills in school-age children with and without anxiety disorders.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Anxiety may interfere with school-age children's independent behaviour and hence, their daily living skills (DLS). Nonetheless, this has not been tested in previous studies of children with clinical anxiety.
  
  
  METHODS
  This study compared two groups of age-, gender-, and ethnicity-matched children with and without anxiety disorders (N = 60), testing the association of anxiety disorders with a lack of independence in DLS.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Anxiety disorders are significantly associated with less mastery of DLS. Age moderated this effect for children with anxiety disorders; older children were more negatively impacted by anxiety disorders than younger children.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Anxiety disorders may negatively impact children's independence in DLS. As children transition from mid- to late childhood - a period normally marked by increasing independence - this effect may grow in magnitude.
authors: Department of Psychology, San Diego State University, California, USA. adrahota@projects.sdsu.edu
authors: Amy
authors: A
authors: Drahota
authors: Lindsey
authors: L
authors: Sterling
authors: Wei-Chin
authors: WC
authors: Hwang
authors: Jeffrey J
authors: JJ
authors: Wood
mesh_terms: D000203:Activities of Daily Living / Q000523:psychology*; D001008:Anxiety Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D002648:Child; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
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