Mood and anxiety profiles differentially associate with physical conditions in US adolescents.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Mood and anxiety are widely associated with physical conditions, but research and treatment are complicated by their overlap, clinical heterogeneity, and manifestation on a spectrum rather than as discrete disorders. In contrast to previous work relying on threshold-level disorders, we examined the association between empirically-derived profiles of mood and anxiety syndromes with physical conditions in a nationally-representative sample of US adolescents.

Methods

Participants were 2,911 adolescents (aged 13-18) from the National Comorbidity Survey-Adolescent Supplement who provided information on physical conditions and reported at least one lifetime mood-anxiety 'syndrome' based on direct interviews with the Composite International Diagnostic Interview Version 3

SUBMITTER: Stapp EK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10284074 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature