OBJECTIVE Anxiety is linked to a number of medical conditions, yet few studies have examined how symptom severity relates to medical comorbidity. PURPOSE The current study assessed associations between severity of anxiety and depression and the presence of medical conditions in adults diagnosed with anxiety disorders. METHOD Nine-hundred eighty-nine patients diagnosed with panic, generalize...

BACKGROUND Anxiety disorders and insomnia are each prevalent, impairing, and highly comorbid. However, little is known about whether specific types of sleep complaints are associated with specific anxiety disorders, and whether poor sleep has an additive effect on functional impairment in anxiety disorders. METHOD Data from the German Health Survey (GHS; N = 4181; ages 18-65) were utilized to...

Objectives: This study aimed to investigate the associations between physical diseases and prevalent / incident anxiety in a community dwelling older population aged 65 years or over. Methods: 1204 people aged 65 years or over evaluated at baseline, and 909 (75.4%) were followed two years later. Anxiety was identified at both evaluation points using the questions from the community version of t...

Objectives: This study aimed to investigate the associations between physical diseases and prevalent / incident anxiety in a community dwelling older population aged 65 years or over. Methods: 1204 people aged 65 years or over evaluated at baseline, and 909 (75.4%) were followed two years later. Anxiety was identified at both evaluation points using the questions from the community version of t...

background: this study was designed to determine and compare the stress, anxiety and depression levels in behcet’s disease (bd) patients and a control group of normal individuals. materials and methods: one-hundred and six patients with bd were selected as cases and controls were 106 age- and sex-matched participants referred to the shiraz dental school clinics due to dental problems. we collec...

BACKGROUND Childhood experiences profoundly affect later functioning as an adult. Family practitioners are well-placed to discover the links between childhood troubles and later somatization, depression or anxiety. OBJECTIVES We aimed to study the interrelation of somatization, depressive and anxiety disorders in frequently attending patients in general practice; to investigate whether these ...

OBJECTIVE To examine the incidence of headache symptoms consistent with migraine and tension-type headache (TTH) in children with anxiety disorders. METHOD Parents of children with anxiety disorders (n=27) and children without anxiety disorders (n=36) completed a headache questionnaire based on the International Classification of Headache Disorders (2nd edition) criteria. RESULTS Children w...

background and aims. dental fear/anxiety as a barrier in accessing oral health care is poorly investigated in iranian children. the aims of this study were to evaluate the prevalence of dental fear and behavior management problems, as well as to examine the relationship between dental fear/anxiety and probable concomitant factors. materials and methods. mothers of 200 children aged 3-6 were par...

The current study examined the relationship between math anxiety and arithmetic performance by focusing on intrusive thoughts experienced during problem solving. Participants (N = 122) performed two-digit addition problems on a verification task. Math anxiety significantly predicted response time and error rate. Further, the extent to which intrusive thoughts impeded calculation mediated the re...