Child_And_Adolescents

Child And Adolescents Article Review Summary The article review is from the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Titled Life Course Outcomes of Young People With Anxiety Disorders in Adolescence. The specific aims of the study were to document associations between the extent of anxiety disorder in adolescence and (14 – 16 years) and a range of later mental health, educational, and social functioning outcomes measured in late adolescence and early adulthood (16 – 21 years); and to examine whether associations between the extent of anxiety disorder and later outcomes persisted after statistical adjustment for a range of confounding social background, family, and individual factors (Woodward & Fergusson 2001). Participants were a group of cohort children a total of 1,265 (635 males; 630 females) that were a part of a Christchurch Health and Development Study (CHDS) during the mid-1977. It was a longitudinal study which started at birth, 4 months, 1 year, annual intervals to age 16, and again at 18 and 21 years (Woodward & Fergusson 2001). At age 15 and 16 members and their parents were interviewed separately using the Diagnostic Interview Schedule for Children, supplemented by additional items based on DSM-III-R diagnostic anxiety, disorders, woodward, outcomes, fergusson, 2001, criteria, adolescence, –, lianne, interview, health, diagnostic, david, between, study, social, research, range, mental, later, disorder, cited, children, met, life, items, dsm-iii-r, association, article, american, 16, young, years, schedule