Prevalence of internalizing disorders, symptoms, and traits across age using advanced nonlinear models.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Most epidemiological studies show a decrease of internalizing disorders at older ages, but it is unclear how the prevalence exactly changes with age, and whether there are different patterns for internalizing symptoms and traits, and for men and women. This study investigates the impact of age and sex on the point prevalence across different mood and anxiety disorders, internalizing symptoms, and neuroticism.

Methods

We used cross-sectional data on 146 315 subjects, aged 18-80 years, from the Lifelines Cohort Study, a Dutch general population sample. Between 2012 and 2016, five current internalizing disorders - major depression, dysthymia, generalized anxiety disorder, social phobia, and panic disorder - were assessed according to DSM-IV criteria. Depressive sympt

SUBMITTER: van Loo HM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9874996 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature