PERSISTING GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER AND PHYSICAL HEALTH SYMPTOMS 18 MONTHS AFTER THE DEEPWATER HORIZON OIL SPILL: A COMMUNITY SAMPLE

2016 ◽  
Vol 44 (8) ◽  
pp. 1011-1026 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sydneyjane Varner ◽  
Jennifer Langhinrichsen-Rohling ◽  
Tyler R. Bell
Keyword(s):  
Anxiety Disorder ◽  
Physical Health ◽  
Generalized Anxiety Disorder ◽  
Oil Spill ◽  
Community Sample ◽  
Deepwater Horizon ◽  
Generalized Anxiety ◽  
Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill ◽  
Health Symptoms

scholarly journals The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Physical Health among Adult Women in Southern Louisiana: The Women and Their Children’s Health (WaTCH) Study

2016 ◽  
Vol 124 (8) ◽  
pp. 1208-1213 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lauren C. Peres ◽  
Edward Trapido ◽  
Ariane L. Rung ◽  
Daniel J. Harrington ◽  
Evrim Oral ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Physical Health ◽  
Oil Spill ◽  
Deepwater Horizon ◽  
Children's Health ◽  
Children’S Health ◽  
Adult Women ◽  
Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill ◽  
Southern Louisiana

scholarly journals 0217 The NIEHS GuLF STUDY: Mental Health Symptoms Among Participants Involved in the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Clean-up

2014 ◽  
Vol 71 (Suppl 1) ◽  
pp. A29.1-A29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Kwok ◽  
Lawrence Engel ◽  
Christine Ekenga ◽  
Aubrey Miller ◽  
Aaron Blair ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Oil Spill ◽  
Deepwater Horizon ◽  
Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill ◽  
Mental Health Symptoms ◽  
Health Symptoms

Generalized anxiety disorder and clinical worry episodes in young women

2002 ◽  
Vol 32 (7) ◽  
pp. 1227-1237 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. HOYER ◽  
E. S. BECKER ◽  
J. MARGRAF
Keyword(s):  
Anxiety Disorder ◽  
Generalized Anxiety Disorder ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Psychosocial Functioning ◽  
Predictive Accuracy ◽  
Community Sample ◽  
Epidemiological Data ◽  
Generalized Anxiety ◽  
Co Morbidity ◽  
Dsm Iv

Background. This article presents epidemiological data on the prevalence of DSM-IV generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) and sub-threshold GAD (fulfilling three out of four GAD criteria) in young women together with data on co-morbidity and psychosocial functioning. The prevalence of clinically relevant worry and its predictive validity for the diagnosis of GAD were also examined.Method. Young women (N = 2064), aged between 18 and 25, from a representative German community sample were diagnosed with a structured clinical interview (ADIS-L, German research version). An additional interview questioned all the participants about the frequency/intensity and uncontrollability of diverse worry topics.Results. Thirty-seven participants (1.8%) fulfilled the criteria of current GAD (1 week point prevalence) and 56 received a lifetime diagnosis (2.7%); a further 50 participants (2.3%) were diagnosed with sub-threshold GAD. Co-morbidity between GAD and other disorders was high for current (68%) and lifetime GAD (91%). GAD, as well as sub-threshold GAD, showed clearly reduced levels of psychosocial functioning. Whereas worries of low intensity and high controllability were ubiquitous in all subsamples, clinically defined worrying was rarely present in healthy subjects (0.89%) and of adequate predictive accuracy for GAD.Conclusions. Full GAD and sub-threshold GAD were moderately frequent in young women. Although DSM-IV worry criteria proved to be highly useful, the strictness of the complete GAD-criteria should not lead to absence of attention from subclinical generalized anxiety states in research and practice.

A population-based family study of DSM-III generalized anxiety disorder

2006 ◽  
Vol 36 (9) ◽  
pp. 1275-1281 ◽  
Author(s):  
STEPHEN C. NEWMAN ◽  
ROGER C. BLAND
Keyword(s):  
Anxiety Disorder ◽  
Generalized Anxiety Disorder ◽  
Family Study ◽  
Familial Aggregation ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Community Sample ◽  
Community Setting ◽  
Generalized Anxiety ◽  
Post Traumatic Stress ◽  
Compulsive Disorder

Background. A recent meta-analysis provides evidence that generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) is familial. However, two of the key studies relied on subjects who were self-selected or recruited from the clinic setting, thereby limiting generalizability.Method. We conducted a family study of GAD in which probands and controls came from a community sample originally enrolled in a prevalence study in Edmonton, Canada. One hundred and sixty probands, 764 controls and 2386 first-degree relatives (FDRs) were interviewed using the Diagnostic Interview Schedule (DIS); lifetime diagnoses were made according to DSM-III criteria without exclusions. Logistic regression analysis was performed with GAD (in a proband) as the ‘exposure’, and GAD in an FDR as the ‘outcome’. Several analytic strategies were used to control for potential confounding by major depressive disorder (MDD) and several anxiety disorders (panic disorder, phobic disorders, obsessive–compulsive disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder).Results. The odds ratios for the association between GAD in a proband and GAD in an FDR were in the range 1·4–1·8 when the entire FDR sample was analysed, and in the range 2·1–2·8 when we restricted to FDRs who were children of probands and controls.Conclusion. In the community setting, GAD exhibits mild to moderate familial aggregation.

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