- AutorIn
- Ronald C. Kessler
- Nancy Brandenburg
- Michael Lane
- Peter Roy-Byrne
- Paul D. Stang
- Dan J. Stein
- Hans-Ulrich Wittchen
- Titel
- Rethinking the duration requirement for generalized anxiety disorder: evidence from the National Comorbidity Survey Replication
- Zitierfähige Url:
- https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-103044
- Quellenangabe
- Psychological Medicine, Bd. 35 (2005), Nr. 7, S. 1073-1082, ISSN 0033-2917
- Erstveröffentlichung
- 2005
- Abstract (EN)
- Background. The proposed revisions of the ICD and DSM diagnostic systems have led to increased interest in evaluation of diagnostic criteria. This report focuses on the DSM-IV requirement that episodes of generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) must persist for at least 6 months. Community epidemiological data are used to study the implications of changing this requirement in the range 1–12 months for estimates of prevalence, onset, course, impairment, co-morbidity, associations with parental GAD, and sociodemographic correlates. Method. Data come from the US National Comorbidity Survey Replication (NCS-R), a US household survey carried out during 2001–2003. Version 3.0 of the WHO Composite International Diagnostic Interview (WMH-CIDI) was used to assess DSM-IV anxiety disorders, mood disorders, substance disorders, and impulse-control disorders. Results. Lifetime, 12-month, and 30-day prevalence estimates of DSM-IV GAD changed from 6·1%, 2·9%, and 1·8% to 4·2–12·7%, 2·2–5·5%, and 1·6–2·6% when the duration requirement was changed from 6 months to 1–12 months. Cases with episodes of 1–5 months did not differ greatly from those with episodes of [gt-or-equal, slanted]6 months in onset, persistence, impairment, co-morbidity, parental GAD, or sociodemographic correlates. Conclusions. A large number of people suffer from a GAD-like syndrome with episodes of <6 months duration. Little basis for excluding these people from a diagnosis is found in the associations examined here.
- Andere Ausgabe
- DOI: 10.1017/S0033291705004538
- Abstract und Metadaten zu dem Artikel, der zuerst in der Zeitschrift Psychological Medicine erschienen ist.
Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0033291705004538 - Freie Schlagwörter (DE)
- Generalisierte Angststörung, Nationale Komorbiditätsstudie
- Freie Schlagwörter (EN)
- Generalized anxiety disorder, National Comorbidity Survey
- Klassifikation (DDC)
- 150
- Klassifikation (RVK)
- CU 3100
- Verlag
- Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK
- URN Qucosa
- urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-103044
- Veröffentlichungsdatum Qucosa
- 29.01.2013
- Dokumenttyp
- Artikel
- Sprache des Dokumentes
- Englisch
- Lizenz / Rechtehinweis