Generalized Anxiety Disorders: A Literature Review

For purpose of this literature research, the PubMed database that is available through the Medical Library of the National Guard Health services was utilized. The focus of this literature is the disorder of social anxiety in Saudi Arabia and the relation ship between anxiety and life. For this reason, the following four search terms were used: anxiety disorder, social anxiety, Saudi Arabia, treatment. As a result of using these 4 search terms, more than a 30 articles were found. The following provides a brief summary of information contained in those articles. Generalized anxiety disorder and is also known as (GAD) is one of the most common mental disorders; however, there is still no brief clinical measure for assessing generalized anxiety disorder. The object of this study was to develop a brief self-report scale to identify probable cases of generalized anxiety disorder and evaluate its reliability and validity. A criterion-standard study was per-formed in 15 primary care
Clinics in the United States from November 2004 through June 2005. Of a total of 2740 adult patient completing a study questionnaire, …show more content…
The Prevalence and associations of social anxiety disorder with sociodemographic and psychiatric correlates and Axis I and II disorders. (2) The prevalence of 12-month and lifetime DSM-IV social anxiety disorder was 2.8% (95% CI = 2.5 to 3.1) and 5.0% (95% CI = 4.6 to 5.4), respectively. Being Native American, being young, or having low income increased risk, while being male, being of Asian, Hispanic, or black race/ethnicity, or living in urban or more populated regions reduced