Am J Psychiatry 1990; 147:319-323
Copyright © 1990 by American Psychiatric Association
Correlates of anxiety in psychiatrically hospitalized children and their parents
JH Kashani, AF Vaidya, SM Soltys, AC Dandoy, LM Katz and JC Reid
Department of Psychiatry, University of Missouri-Columbia 65201.
The authors separated 100 children hospitalized in a child psychiatry
service into three groups according to their level of anxiety on the basis
of the responses of the children and their parents to diagnostic
interviews. Differentiation of the groups of children was validated by
independent test instruments. Results of tests administered to the children
and their parents revealed significant relationships between anxiety in the
adults and in the children. In addition, parents of anxious children
reported more SCL-90-R symptoms as well as more negative family relations
than parents of nonanxious children and the more severely anxious children
had higher rates of dysthymia and negative life events.
