Prevalence and Incidence Studies of Anxiety Disorders: A Systematic Review of the Literature

By J. Somers, E. Goldner, P. Waraich, Lorena Hsu. Canadian journal of psychiatry. Revue canadienne de psychiatrie, 2004

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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A systematic review of reviews on the prevalence of anxiety disorders in adult populations (2016, background): “A less rigorous review (Somers et al. 2006) estimated the highest lifetime prevalence of anxiety disorders in Swiss and US populations (23–28.”
The Yale–Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale (2015, result): “Lifetime prevalence rates for OCD also vary, with figures of 1% and 1.6% for men and women in the Somers et al. (2006) study, and of 1.6% and 3%, respectively, in the Kessler et al. (2012) study.”
Evidence-based guidelines for treating depressive disorders with antidepressants: A revision of the 2008 British Association for Psychopharmacology guidelines (2015, background): “In a meta-analysis of 23 prevalence and incidence studies (Waraich et al., 2004) the best-estimate pooled rates for 1-year and lifetime prevalence of major depression were found to be 4.”
Long-term mental health of war-refugees: a systematic literature review (2015, background): “Such gender differences are observable in studies across the world [74, 84, 85].”
Anxiety among high school students in India: Comparisons across gender, school type, social strata and perceptions of quality time with parents (2010, background): “Moreover, early studies of toddlers ( Schachter, 1981 ), primary school-aged children (Gold and Andres, 1978a), and adolescents (Gold and Andres, 1978b) consistently established that children of employed mothers were as confident in social settings as children whose mothers remained at home and were”
Drug resistance in brain diseases and the role of drug efflux transporters (2005, background): “Mood disorders or affective disorders affect as much as 7% of the population in any given year, and are considered to be one of the top ten causes of disability worldwid”
Effectiveness of Brief Mindfulness Techniques in Reducing Symptoms of Anxiety and Stress (2014, background): “This, in turn, may reduce one’s experience of stress and anxiety symptomatology, as the two are often related (Behar et al. 2009; Somers et al. 2006).”
Canadian clinical practice guidelines for the management of anxiety, posttraumatic stress and obsessive-compulsive disorders (2014, background): “Women generally have higher prevalence rates across all anxiety and related disorders, compared with men [4,5,9].”
Influence of Tryptophan and Serotonin on Mood and Cognition with a Possible Role of the Gut-Brain Axis (2016, background): “Lowered mood is one of the major symptoms of depression, an affective disorder which is the leading cause of disability worldwide, affecting approximately 20% of the world’s population [15].”
Prevalence of depression in cancer patients: a meta-analysis of diagnostic interviews and self-report instruments (2013, background): “Clearly, the prevalence of a major depressive disorder in cancer patients is much higher compared with the 4% found in the general population [38].”