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The relationship between anxiety and depression was examined in a sample of 106 children and adolescents referred to an outpatient anxiety disorder clinic for children. Twenty-eight percent of patients with DSM-III diagnoses of anxiety disorders displayed a concurrent major depression. Children with anxiety disorders plus major depression were found (1) to be older, (2) to demonstrate more severe anxiety symptomatology, and (3) to be diagnosed with different rates of certain anxiety-disorder subtypes, when compared to anxious patients without major depression. Nondepressed anxious children and adolescents did not differ from a psychopathological control group in severity of either anxiety or depression symptoms.
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Strauss, C.C., Last, C.G., Hersen, M. et al. Association between anxiety and depression in children and adolescents with anxiety disorders. J Abnorm Child Psychol 16, 57–68 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00910500
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