Non-obsessive-compulsive anxiety disorders in child and adolescent mental health services - Are they underdiagnosed, and how accurate is referral information?

Nordic Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 133-139

  Hansen, Berit Hjelde ^a   Oerbeck, Beate ^b   Skirbekk, Benedicte ^c   Kristensen, Hanne ^d  

^a AKERSHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^c LOVISENBERG DIAKONALE HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^d Regional Centre of Child and Adolescent Mental Health   (Norway)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGORAPHOBIA; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; CHILD; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DISRUPTIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; NORWAY; PANIC; PATIENT REFERRAL; PHOBIA; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREVALENCE; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; REGISTER; SCHEDULE FOR AFFECTIVE DISORDERS AND SCHIZOPHRENIA; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SEPARATION ANXIETY; SOCIAL PHOBIA; SPECIFIC PHOBIA; ANXIETY DISORDERS; CHILD HEALTH CARE; HOSPITALIZATION; PARENT; PSYCHOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT HEALTH SERVICES; ANXIETY DISORDERS; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH SERVICES; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; PARENTS; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION;

EID: 84949466600     PISSN: 08039488     EISSN: 15024725     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/08039488.2015.1061053     Document Type: Article

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