Anxiety Disorders - Diagnosis
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Screening for emotional distress in cancer patients: a systematic review of assessment instruments.

11 Oct 2009 Screening for emotional distress is becoming increasingly common in cancer care. This systematic review examines the psychometric properties of the existing tools used to screen patients for emotional distress, with the goal of encouraging screening ... Read more...

Anxiety and outcome in bipolar disorder.

29 Sep 2009 OBJECTIVE: Important differences exist between bipolar disorder with and without comorbid anxiety, but little is known about the long-term prognostic significance of coexisting anxiety in bipolar disorder. The authors sought to identify the anxiety ... Read more...

The longitudinal structure of general and specific anxiety dimensions in children: testing a latent trait-state-occasion model.

30 Aug 2009 In an 8-wave, 4-year longitudinal study, 787 children (Grades 3-6) completed the Revised Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale (C. R. Reynolds & B. O. Richmond, 1985), a measure of the Physiological Reactivity, Worry-Oversensitivity, and Social ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Anxiety Disorders - Diagnosis'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Screening for emotional distress in cancer patients: a systematic review of assessment instruments. 11 Oct 2009
• Anxiety and outcome in bipolar disorder. 29 Sep 2009
• The longitudinal structure of general and specific anxiety dimensions in children: testing a latent trait-state-occasion model. 30 Aug 2009
• The intolerance of uncertainty scale for children: a psychometric evaluation. 30 Aug 2009
• A proposal for a dimensional classification system based on the shared features of the DSM-IV anxiety and mood disorders: implications for assessment and treatment. 30 Aug 2009
• Medically unexplained symptoms--blurring the line between "mental" and "physical" in somatoform disorders. 30 Aug 2009
• Trauma history is associated with psychological distress and somatic symptoms in homebound older adults. 30 Aug 2009
• Comorbidity of depressive and anxiety disorders for older Americans in the national comorbidity survey-replication. 30 Aug 2009
• Prevalence of mood, anxiety, and substance-abuse disorders for older Americans in the national comorbidity survey-replication. 30 Aug 2009
• Women's mental health: depression and anxiety. 30 Aug 2009
• Detecting depressive and anxiety disorders in distressed patients in primary care; comparative diagnostic accuracy of the Four-Dimensional Symptom Questionnaire (4DSQ) and the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS). 21 Aug 2009
• Association between number of deployments to Iraq and mental health screening outcomes in US Army soldiers. 9 Aug 2009
• Self- and proxy-report agreement on the Stroke Impact Scale. 4 Aug 2009
• Stressful life events, anxiety sensitivity, and internalizing symptoms in adolescents. 30 Jul 2009
• Assessing onset of treatment benefit in depression and anxiety: conceptual considerations. 30 Jul 2009
• Anxiety and sleep problems: emerging concepts and theoretical treatment implications. 30 Jul 2009
• Is there a "mosquito net" for anxiety and mood disorders? 30 Jul 2009
• Older adults are less accurate than younger adults at identifying symptoms of anxiety and depression. 30 Jul 2009
• Barriers in recognising, diagnosing and managing depressive and anxiety disorders as experienced by Family Physicians; a focus group study. 18 Jul 2009
• Sleep in depression and anxiety disorders: a population-based study of elderly persons. 12 Jul 2009

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Technical information about 'Anxiety Disorders'

Definition: Persistent and disabling ANXIETY.

Descriptor UI: D001008

Alternative terms: Anxiety Disorders; Anxiety Disorder; Disorder, Anxiety; Disorders, Anxiety; Neuroses, Anxiety; Anxiety Neuroses; Anxiety States, Neurotic; Anxiety State, Neurotic; Neurotic Anxiety State; Neurotic Anxiety States; State, Neurotic Anxiety; States, Neurotic Anxiety;

Related Mesh Headings: Anxiety; Anti-Anxiety Agents;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemically induced; classification; complications; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: F03.080;

Online Note: use ANXIETY DISORDERS to search NEUROSES, ANXIETY 1966-80

History Note: 81; was NEUROSES, ANXIETY 1963-80

Technical Notes: differentiate from ANXIETY