Two-year course of generalized anxiety disorder, social anxiety disorder, and panic disorder in a longitudinal sample of African American adults

Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology

Volumn 81, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1052-1062

  Sibrava, Nicholas J ^a   Beard, Courtney ^b   Bjornsson, Andri S ^c   Moitra, Ethan ^a   Weisberg, Risa B ^a   Keller, Martin B ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MCLEAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

Author keywords

African American; generalized anxiety disorder; longitudinal course; panic disorder; social anxiety disorder

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; AGORAPHOBIA; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DSM-IV; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FAMILY THERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER; GROUP THERAPY; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL PATIENT; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PANIC; PANIC DISORDER WITH AGORAPHOBIA; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHIATRIC TREATMENT; PSYCHOTHERAPY; SELF HELP; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SOCIAL PHOBIA; STRUCTURED CLINICAL INTERVIEW FOR DSM DISORDERS; SURVIVAL; SYMPTOM; ANXIETY DISORDERS; CHRONIC DISEASE; ETHNOLOGY; PANIC DISORDER; PHOBIC DISORDERS; PSYCHOLOGY; REMISSION; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGORAPHOBIA; ANXIETY DISORDERS; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; PANIC DISORDER; PHOBIC DISORDERS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REMISSION, SPONTANEOUS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84888992480     PISSN: 0022006X     EISSN: 19392117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0034382     Document Type: Article

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