The comorbidity between eating disorders and anxiety disorders: Prevalence in an eating disorder sample and anxiety disorder sample

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 118-131

  Swinbourne, Jessica ^a   Hunt, Caroline ^a   Abbott, Maree ^a   Russell, Janice ^a   St Clare, Tamsen ^b   Touyz, Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b St Clare and Associates   (Australia)

Author keywords

agoraphobia; Anorexia nervosa; bulimia nervosa; eating disorder not otherwise specified; GAD; OCD; panic disorder; PTSD; social phobia; specific phobia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGORAPHOBIA; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; EATING DISORDER; FEMALE; GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PANIC; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREVALENCE; SOCIAL PHOBIA; ADOLESCENT; ANOREXIA NERVOSA; BULIMIA; PHOBIA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGORAPHOBIA; ANOREXIA NERVOSA; ANXIETY DISORDERS; BULIMIA NERVOSA; COMORBIDITY; EATING DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PANIC DISORDER; PHOBIC DISORDERS; PREVALENCE; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 84861682317     PISSN: 00048674     EISSN: 14401614     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0004867411432071     Document Type: Article

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