title: Anxiety Symptoms and Disorders in College Students With ADHD.
abstract: Objective:This study examined anxiety symptoms and disorders in college students with ADHD.Method:Forty-six college students with ADHD and a matched group of students without ADHD participated. Participants completed self-report measures of anxiety symptoms and associated features, including worry, maladaptive beliefs about worry, panic symptoms, social anxiety, obsessive-compulsive symptoms, and self-efficacy. Participants also completed a diagnostic interview to assess lifetime and current anxiety disorders.Results:Participants with ADHD endorsed more maladaptive beliefs about worry, more obsessive-compulsive symptoms, and poorer self-efficacy compared with comparison participants. There were no group differences in rates of current anxiety disorders. Participants with ADHD were over 2 times more likely than comparison participants to endorse this lifetime history.Conclusion:College students with ADHD are more likely to have a lifetime history of an anxiety disorder and are at greater risk for some anxiety symptoms and associated features.
authors.affiliation: Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA.
authors.forename: Sarah R
authors.initials: SR
authors.lastname: O'Rourke
authors.affiliation: LeBauer Healthcare/Moses Cone Health System, Greensboro, NC, USA.
authors.forename: Allison C
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Bray
authors.affiliation: University of North Carolina at Greensboro, NC, USA.
authors.forename: Arthur D
authors.initials: AD
authors.lastname: Anastopoulos
mesh_terms: D001007:Anxiety; D001008:Anxiety Disorders; D001289:Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity / Q000453:epidemiology; D005239:Fear; D006801:Humans; D013334:Students; D014495:Universities
keywords: ADHD; anxiety; college students; comorbidity