Am J Psychiatry 1986; 143:1471-1472
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Prevalence of clinically significant anxiety in a family practice setting

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The Zung Self-Rating Anxiety Scale was administered to 739 consecutive patients seen in a family medicine center during a 9-month period. When a morbidity cutoff score of 50 was used, 20% of the patients were found to have clinically significant anxiety symptoms.

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