Anxiety and Somatic Complaints in Children with Recurrent Abdominal Pain and Anxiety Disorders

Anxiety and somatic complaints in children with recurrent abdominal pain and anxiety disorders.

OBJECTIVE To compare anxiety symptoms and disorders in children and adolescents with recurrent abdominal pain (RAP), anxiety disorders, and healthy control children. METHODS Twenty-one children with RAP (nine males, mean age = 11.05) were compared to 21 children with anxiety disorders (11 males, mean age = 12.29), and 21 children without pain or anxiety (nine males, mean age = 11.57) using di...

Somatic complaints in children with anxiety disorders and their unique prediction of poorer academic performance.

The present study aimed to examine somatic complaints in children with anxiety disorders compared to non-anxious control children and whether somatic complaints predict poorer academic performance. The sample consisted of 108 children and adolescents (aged 8-14 years) assessed by a structured diagnostic interview: 69 with a principal (i.e., most severe and/or interfering) anxiety disorder diagn...

Recurrent Abdominal Pain, Anxiety, and Responses to Stress in Children and Adolescents

15.7 ANXIETY DISORDERS: SOMATIC TREATMENT Kaplan & Sadock’s Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry CHAPTER 15. ANXIETY DISORDERS 15.7 ANXIETY DISORDERS: SOMATIC TREATMENT

After decades of neglect and controversy, anxiety disorders are increasingly recognized as legitimate medical conditions requiring specific treatment. The unproductive debate over the primacy of biological or psychological factors in the pathophysiology of anxiety is gradually being replaced by a pragmatic approach based on research on the relative contributions of both. A parallel, unbiased ap...

An investigation of health anxiety in families where children have recurrent abdominal pain.

OBJECTIVES To explore health anxiety in children with recurrent abdominal pain (RAP) using a symbolic play assessment. METHODS Children with RAP and two control groups (with asthma and well children) were recruited. Eighty-four families completed play and questionnaire assessments of health anxiety and psychological functioning. RESULTS Children with RAP demonstrated less use of psychologic...