BACKGROUND Past episodes of depressive or anxiety disorders and subthreshold symptoms have both been reported to predict the occurrence of depressive or anxiety disorders. It is unclear to what extent the two factors interact or predict these disorders independently. AIMS To examine the extent to which history, subthreshold symptoms and their combination predict the occurrence of depressive (...

The article approaches the basic theoretical foundation of anxiety disorders, on which “Zung Self-Rating Anxiety Scale (SAS)” and “Depression Stress Scales (DASS- 42)” are used to measure levels disorder 260 primary school pre-school education students in Education Faculty - Dong Thap University. research result aimed clarify student’s level disorder, anxiety, depression stress (factors impacti...

background:  the  current study examined race and ethnic differences in the separate and combined (additive) effects of anxiety, depression and problem drinking on the baseline and trajectory of subjective health among adult men in the united states. methods:  this longitudinal study used data from the fragile families and child well-being study. we included 4655 men, composed of 2407 blacks, 1...

abstract introduction: anxiety is associated with a higher risk of cardiovascular disease. the present study aims to assess the extent of carotid artery atherosclerosis in patients with and without anxiety disorder. methods: in a cross-sectional study, two groups of participants with and without anxiety disorder (40 and 80 subjects, respectively) according to dsm-iv were selected from the psych...

OBJECTIVE The authors conducted meta-analyses of data from family and twin studies of panic disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, phobias, and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) to explore the roles of genetic and environmental factors in their etiology. METHOD MEDLINE searches were performed to identify potential primary studies of these disorders. Data from studies that met inclusion cri...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the prevalence of comorbid eating and anxiety disorders in women presenting for inpatient and outpatient treatment of an eating disorder and women presenting for outpatient treatment of an anxiety disorder. METHODS The prevalence of comorbidity was investigated from a sample of 152 women, which included 100 women presenting for treatment of an eating disorder and 52 w...

OBJECTIVE Evidence suggests that childhood separation anxiety disorder may be associated with a heightened risk for the development of other disorders in adulthood. The authors conducted a meta-analysis to examine the relationship between childhood separation anxiety disorder and future psychopathology. METHOD PubMed, PsycINFO, and Embase were searched for studies published through December 2...

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...

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...