Much more than just shyness: the impact of social anxiety disorder on educational performance across the lifespan.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Social anxiety disorder (SAD) has been linked to academic underachievement, but previous studies had methodological limitations. We investigated the association between SAD and objective indicators of educational performance, controlling for a number of covariates and unmeasured confounders shared between siblings.

Methods

This population-based birth cohort study included 2 238 837 individuals born in Sweden between 1973 and 1997, followed-up until 2013. Within the cohort, 15 755 individuals had a recorded ICD-10 diagnosis of SAD in the Swedish National Patient Register. Logistic regression models tested the association between SAD and educational performance. We also identified 6488 families with full siblings discordant for SAD.

Results

Compared to unexpo

SUBMITTER: Vilaplana-Perez A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8108394 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature