OBJECTIVES To investigate the validity and reliability of the Geriatric Anxiety Inventory in screening for anxiety in older inpatients post-stroke. DESIGN Longitudinal. SUBJECTS A total of 81 inpatients with stroke aged 65 years or older were recruited at four centres in England. MAIN MEASURES At phase 1 the Geriatric Anxiety Inventory and the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale were ad...

We addressed several questions regarding the relation of anxiety sensitivity to anxious symptoms among 47 youth psychiatric inpatients (18 boys, 29 girls), ages 9-17 (M = 14.23, SD = 1.89). Participants completed measures of anxiety sensitivity, anxious and depressive symptoms, trait anxiety, and positive and negative affect; chart diagnoses were available. Consistent with hypotheses, we found ...

Anxiety sensitivity, a belief that symptoms of anxiety are harmful, has been proposed to influence development of panic disorder. Recent research suggests it may be a vulnerability factor for many anxiety subtypes. Moderate genetic influences have been implicated for both anxiety sensitivity and anxiety, however, little is known about the aetiology of the relationship between these traits in ch...

OBJECTIVE This study sought to explore how anxiety impacts college students with ADHD, especially with regard to cognitive functioning. METHOD 473 college students with ADHD and a control group of 200 college students without ADHD completed self-report measures of anxiety, ADHD symptomatology and tests of cognitive functioning. RESULTS Students with ADHD reported significantly more anxiety ...

OBJECTIVE To determine the changes in dental anxiety, state anxiety, and trait anxiety levels of patients and their parents after 3 months of active orthodontic treatment. METHODS We evaluated 120 patients and one parent of each patient. State Anxiety (STAI-S), Trait Anxiety (STAI-T), and Corah's Dental Anxiety Scale (DAS) were administered before orthodontic treatment (T1) and after 3 months...

OBJECTIVE Data suggest parents' preprocedural anxiety is related to children's acute procedural anxiety and pain. This study examined the temporal relations among these constructs to determine whether children's anxiety mediates the relation between parents' anticipatory anxiety and children's procedural pain. METHODS A total of 90 preschoolers receiving immunizations, their parents, and the ...

phobia can lead to heart attack according to studies in the uk, risk of anemia in patients with phobia is increasing. the results of research on the 1457 men 40 to 67 years old are shown that the anxiety caused by phobia is highly dependent to ischemic heart disease.   before this study , patients that had suffered from a heart attack did not show higher levels of anxiety more than others. this...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Anxiety after stroke is common and disabling. Stroke trialists have treated anxiety as a homogenous condition, and intervention studies have followed suit, neglecting the different treatment approaches for phobic and generalized anxiety. Using diagnostic psychiatric interviews, we aimed to report the frequency of phobic and generalized anxiety, phobic avoidance, predictor...