Prevalence of clinically significant anxiety in a family practice setting
- 1 November 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychiatric Association Publishing in American Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 143 (11) , 1471-1472
- https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.143.11.1471
Abstract
The Zung Self-Rating Anxiety Scale was administered to 739 consecutive patients seen in a family medicine center during a 9-month period. When a morbidity cutoff score of 50 was used, 20% of the patients were found to have clinically significant anxiety symptoms.This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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