title: A clinical study of anxiety disorders in children and adolescents from North Indian children and adolescents clinic.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Anxiety disorders are the most common group of psychiatric disorders in children and adolescents. But few studies on specific anxiety disorders in children and adolescents are available in India. Therefore, this study was planned to identify anxiety disorders in children and adolescents in an Indian psychiatry outpatient setting and elicit its phenomenology and co-morbidities.
  
  
  METHODS
  1465 persons were screened using screen for child anxiety related emotional disorders (SCARED) scale. The screen positive patients were assessed and diagnosis of anxiety disorders was established according to DSM-IV-TR. Detailed assessment of the phenomenology of anxiety disorders was done by K-SADS-PL.
  
  
  RESULTS
  42 (2.86%) patients had different anxiety disorders. Out of which 16 (38.1%) patients had obsessive compulsive disorder, 10 (23.81%) patients with specific phobias, 6 (14.29%) patients with generalized anxiety disorder, 4 (9.52%) patients with social anxiety disorder and 3 (7.14%) patients each with separation anxiety disorder and panic disorder. Co-morbidities were found in 54% of patients with anxiety disorders. Dissociative disorder, specific phobias and social anxiety disorder were the common co-morbidities.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Anxiety disorders are less commonly found in clinic settings (2.86%). No case of posttraumatic stress disorder or acute stress reaction was found in this study.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, King George's Medical University, U.P. (Formerly C.S.M. Medical University), Lucknow, India. Electronic address: satyakgmu@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Satyakam
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Mohapatra
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, King George's Medical University, U.P. (Formerly C.S.M. Medical University), Lucknow, India.
authors.forename: Vivek
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Agarwal
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, King George's Medical University, U.P. (Formerly C.S.M. Medical University), Lucknow, India.
authors.forename: Prabhat
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Sitholey
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, King George's Medical University, U.P. (Formerly C.S.M. Medical University), Lucknow, India.
authors.forename: Amit
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Arya
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001008:Anxiety Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology; D002648:Child; D015897:Comorbidity; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D039721:Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007194:India / Q000453:epidemiology; D008297:Male; D009771:Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology; D016584:Panic Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology; D010698:Phobic Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology; D011594:Psychometrics
keywords: Adolescents; Anxiety; Children