Not exact matches
Separation
anxiety is a normal emotion in children
between about age 8 mo and 24 mo; if it persists beyond this time or returns later, it may be
severe enough to be considered a disorder.
When we fail to deal with basic
anxiety issues in children, they become disorders that can stay with them all the way through adolescence and adulthood; 25 % of children aged
between 13 and 18 have some
anxiety disorder, while 5.9 % have
severe anxiety disorders (1).
Gliding
between his own story and a broader perspective, Stossel first describes what
severe anxiety is like: in his case, it is an obsessive fear of vomiting, coupled with uncertain bowel control, crippling social
anxiety and panic attacks.
The study looked back through 14 million newspaper articles
between 1900 - 2016, and found trauma - related symptoms such as flashbacks, trouble sleeping, and
severe anxiety were called different names after World War I, World War II, Vietnam, and the Gulf War.
We did not find any differences in outcomes
between patients with DSM - IV Hypochondriasis only, patients with
severe Health
anxiety only, and patients with both diagnoses.
The differences in PCS scores
between the
severe Health
anxiety patients, the DSM - IV Hypochondriasis patients, and the well - defined medical condition patients were statistically significant (Table 3).
Two studies have analysed cost effectiveness of CBT for
severe health
anxiety delivered in a conventional face - to - face format compared with treatment as usual using data from randomised controlled trials.8, 9 In the first study, it was found that CBT but not the control condition reduced consumption of primary and secondary healthcare contacts, but total costs were unchanged in both conditions.8 In the second study, a large - scale randomised trial, the health economic analyses showed that there were no significant differences
between the two treatment conditions.9 In both of the above studies, CBT was superior in reducing health
anxiety symptoms compared with treatment as usual, which means that as costs were similar across groups, CBT is likely to be the more cost - effective treatment option.