The comorbidity of current and lifetime DSM-IV anxiety and mood disorders was examined in 1,127 outpatients who were assessed with the Anxiety Disorders Interview Schedule for DSM-IV: Lifetime version (ADIS-IV-L). The current and lifetime prevalence of additional Axis I disorders in principal anxiety and mood disorders was found to be 57% and 81%, respectively. The principal diagnostic categori...

Anxiety disorders are highly comorbid with each other and with major depressive disorder. As syndromes, anxiety and mood disorders share many symptoms, and several treatments are effective for both. Despite this overlap, there exist many distinguishing features that support the continued classification of individual anxiety disorders that are distinct from each other and from major depression. ...

The association between lifetime anxiety disorders, conduct disorder (CD), and antisocial personality disorder (ASPD) among adults in the community was explored. Data were drawn from the National Comorbidity Survey (n = 5,877), a representative community sample of adults aged 15-54 in the 48 contiguous US states. Multiple logistic regression analyses were used to determine the association betwe...

There has been considerable emphasis on encouraging GPs to improve their skills in the diagnosis and management of depression, yet anxiety disorders have been relatively neglected. Anxiety symptoms are more common than those of depression in the community, and may be accompanied by significant morbidity. The 2007 UK Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey reported a 9% prevalence of mixed anxiety an...

OBJECTIVE Numerous population-based studies have found an association between major depression and CVD, though these studies did not assess anxiety disorders. Patient samples have shown associations between anxiety disorders and cardiovascular disease (CVD), but without consideration of depressive disorders. Therefore, it remains unclear whether: (a) both anxiety and depressive disorder are ass...

the aim of this study was to determine the prevalence rate of mental disorders among people aged 15 and over. after a pilot study for estimating the sample size, 625 subjects were selected by random cluster sampling from family information files in sowmaesara health centre office. in this study, ghq-28 was used as a screening tool, and dsm-iii-r clinical interview checklist for diagnostic inter...

Despite dramatic advances in our understanding of genetics and neurobiology, the etiology of the anxiety disorders is still relatively unknown. To date, there remain no pathognomonic markers with which a presumptive diagnosis of an anxiety disorder may be made. This highlights the importance of the empirical epidemiologic approach to investigating the definitions and risk factors for the expres...

Axis I comorbidity is associated with greater severity of social anxiety disorder. However, the differential effects of comorbid mood and anxiety disorders on symptom severity or treatment outcome have not been investigated. We evaluated 69 persons with uncomplicated social anxiety disorder, 39 persons with an additional anxiety disorder, and 33 persons with an additional mood disorder (with or...

OBJECTIVE To compare anxiety symptoms and disorders in children and adolescents with recurrent abdominal pain (RAP), anxiety disorders, and healthy control children. METHODS Twenty-one children with RAP (nine males, mean age = 11.05) were compared to 21 children with anxiety disorders (11 males, mean age = 12.29), and 21 children without pain or anxiety (nine males, mean age = 11.57) using di...

Researchers postulate that both shame and guilt are emotions important to anxiety disorders. Extant data, however, indicate that guilt-proneness shares non-significant relationships with psychopathology symptoms after controlling for shame-proneness. To further investigate the relevance of shame and guilt to the anxiety disorders domain, the current study examined associations between shame- an...