Background: Accumulating evidence shows that anxiety sensitivity is associated with anxiety symptoms in children and adolescents. Factor analytic studies showed that anxiety sensitivity has hierarchical structure with a single higher-order factor of global anxiety sensitivity represented by two to four underlying facets. There has been little research on the relationship between certain facets ...

PURPOSE To examine associations between health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and anxiety symptoms across anxiety domains (obsessions/compulsions, social anxiety, panic disorder, agoraphobia, separation anxiety, physical injury fears, generalised anxiety, and posttraumatic stress) in a general adolescent population. Expanded knowledge about these associations can provide valuable information f...

Anxiety syndromes are common in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) with up to 30% suffering from panic disorder, and up to 11% from generalized anxiety disorder (GAD). Anxiety is associated with increased subjective motor symptoms, more severe gait problems, dyskinesias, freezing, and on/off fluctuations. Anxiety has a negative impact on health related quality of life and is strongly associ...

Separation anxiety and social phobia are intertwined to a considerable degree, and high comorbidity rates have been reported. The present study used latent class analysis (LCA) to investigate if classes of children and adolescents with-simultaneously-high rates of separation anxiety and low rates of social anxiety symptoms, or vice versa, could be identified. Eight- to 18-year-olds from a large...

Offspring of anxious parents are at heightened risk for developing anxiety disorders. Preventive interventions for these youths are promising but not universally effective, creating a need to identify outcome predictors. Peer experiences (e.g., peer victimization, social support) are associated with youth anxiety trajectories but have been relatively unexplored in this context. Thus, this study...

Major anxiety disorders are more prevalent in women than in men. Although the tendency toward anxiety disorders appears familial, other factors such as environmental influences can play a role in the risk for anxiety. This clinical review focuses on the pathophysiologic basis for anxiety disorders. It provides brief overviews of panic disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, social anxiety disor...

background existence the children with blood diseases in family could cause lots of stress and anxiety for parents, this stress among parents would negative effects on children's disease process and his response to treatment. materials and methods this is a descriptive-analytical study which carried out on 480 parents with children affected to blood disease referring to shafa hospital of a...

anxiety disorder is characterized by constant feelings of worry, excitation or alternative panic attacks. anxiety becomes a disorder when the feelings are repeated or severe and are produced by insignificant things or nothing at all and interfere with our functioning. epilepsy is determined as two or more unprovoked seizures. many recent epidemiological studies have found the prevalence of depr...

background: anxiety is one of the most common psychiatric disorders and different treatment protocols have been introduced to relieve or treat it. religious values may be one of the best ways to control of anxiety. life is made meaningful and is directed by religious values. the purpose of this research was to examine the correlation of religious value levels and anxiety among the student of ke...