Stability of childhood anxiety disorder diagnoses: a follow-up naturalistic study in psychiatric care

Abstract: Few studies have examined the stability of major psychiatric disorders in pediatric psychiatric clinical populations. The objective of this study was to examine the long-term stability of anxiety diagnoses starting with pre-school age children through adolescence evaluated at multiple time points. Prospective cohort study was conducted of all children and adolescents receiving psychiatric care at all pediatric psychiatric clinics belonging to two catchment areas in Madrid, Spain, between 1 January, 1992 and 30 April, 2006. Patients were selected from among 24,163 children and adolescents who received psychiatric care. Patients had to have a diagnosis of an ICD-10 anxiety disorder during at least one of the consultations and had to have received psychiatric care for the anxiety disorder. We grouped anxiety disorder diagnoses according to the following categories: phobic disorders, social anxiety disorders, obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD), stress-related disorders, and "other" an

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Postprint ; begutachtet (peer reviewed) ; In: European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry ; 19 (2009) 4 ; 395-403

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Mannheim
• (when): 2009
• Creator: Carballo, Juan J. ; Baca-Garcia, Enrique ; Blanco, Carlos ; Perez-Rodriguez, M. Mercedes ; Jimenez Arriero, Miguel A. ; Artes-Rodriguez, Antonio ; Rynn, Moira ; Shaffer, David ; Oquendo, Maria A.

Further information

• DOI: 10.1007/s00787-009-0064-1
• URN: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-203062
• Rights: Open Access unbekannt; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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