Childhood separation anxiety disorder in patients with adult anxiety disorders
- 1 June 1994
- journal article
- Published by American Psychiatric Association Publishing in American Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 151 (6) , 927-929
- https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.6.927
Abstract
The authors examined the relation between retrospectively reported childhood separation anxiety disorder and adult DSM-III-R anxiety disorders in 252 outpatients at an anxiety disorders research clinic. The prevalence of childhood separation anxiety disorder was significantly greater among patients with two or more lifetime adult anxiety disorder diagnoses than it was among patients with only one anxiety disorder, suggesting that childhood separation anxiety disorder may be a risk factor for multiple anxiety syndromes in adulthood.Keywords
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