- Title
- Prevalence of anxiety disorders among adults seeking speech therapy for stuttering
- Creator
- Iverach, Lisa; O'Brian, Sue; Jones, Mark; Block, Susan; Lincoln, Michelle; Harrison, Elisabeth; Hewat, Sally; Menzies, Ross G.; Packman, Ann; Onslow, Mark
- Relation
- Journal of Anxiety Disorders Vol. 23, Issue 7, p. 928-934
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.janxdis.2009.06.003
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2009
- Description
- The present study explored the prevalence of anxiety disorders among adults seeking speech therapy for stuttering. Employing a matched case–control design, participants included 92 adults seeking treatment for stuttering, and 920 age- and gender-matched controls from the Australian National Survey of Mental Health and Well-being. A conditional logistic regression model was used to estimate odds ratios for Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (DSM-IV) and International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10) anxiety disorders. Compared with matched controls, the stuttering group had six- to seven-fold increased odds of meeting a 12-month diagnosis of any DSM-IV or ICD-10 anxiety disorder. In terms of 12-month prevalence, they also had 16- to 34-fold increased odds of meeting criteria for DSM-IV or ICD-10 social phobia, four-fold increased odds of meeting criteria for DSM-IV generalized anxiety disorder, and six-fold increased odds of meeting criteria for ICD-10 panic disorder. Overall, stuttering appears to be associated with a dramatically heightened risk of a range of anxiety disorders.
- Subject
- anxiety disorders; social phobia; diagnosis; stuttering
- Identifier
- uon:8043
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/916609
- Identifier
- ISSN:0887-6185
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