title: Clinical characteristics and predictors of hoarding in children with anxiety disorders.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This investigation was conducted to describe the clinical of characteristics of anxious children with significant hoarding behavior and to examine the contributions of anxiety, obsessive compulsive, and inattentive and hyperactive/impulsive symptoms in the prediction of hoarding.
  
  
  METHODS
  One hundred nine children seeking treatment for an anxiety disorder and their parents completed clinician-administered and parent-report measures of emotional and behavioral symptoms, functional impairment, and hoarding symptoms.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Elevated levels of hoarding were reported for 22% of the sample. Children with elevated hoarding scored significantly higher on measures of anxiety, obsessive-compulsive, attention, social, and thought problems, rule-breaking, aggression, and overall functional impairment and had higher rates of major depressive disorder than children without hoarding. Attention problems predicted hoarding symptomology over-and-above the contributions of either anxiety or obsessive-compulsive symptoms.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Findings suggest a pattern of behavioral and emotional dysregulation for children who hoard and provide further insight into the relationships between anxiety, attention problems, and hoarding.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, University of South Florida, USA; Rogers Behavioral Health-Tampa Bay, USA. Electronic address: rhamblin@rogersbh.org.
authors.forename: Rebecca J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Hamblin
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, University of South Florida, USA; Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Neurosciences, University of South Florida, USA; Department of Psychology, University of South Florida, USA.
authors.forename: Adam B
authors.initials: AB
authors.lastname: Lewin
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Neurosciences, University of South Florida, USA.
authors.forename: Alison
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Salloum
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Temple University, USA.
authors.forename: Erika A
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Crawford
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, University of South Florida, USA.
authors.forename: Nicole M
authors.initials: NM
authors.lastname: McBride
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, University of South Florida, USA; Rogers Behavioral Health-Tampa Bay, USA; Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Neurosciences, University of South Florida, USA; Department of Psychology, University of South Florida, USA; Department of Health Policy and Management, University of South Florida, USA; All Children's Hospital-Johns Hopkins Medicine, Department of Social Work, University of South Florida, USA.
authors.forename: Eric A
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Storch
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001008:Anxiety Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D001289:Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity / Q000523:psychology; D002648:Child; D003192:Compulsive Behavior / Q000523:psychology; D003865:Major Depressive Disorder / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D000067836:Hoarding Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009771:Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder / Q000523:psychology; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology
keywords: Child anxiety; Hoarding