Making sense of informant disagreement for overanxious disorder

TY - JOUR

T1 - Making sense of informant disagreement for overanxious disorder

AU - Foley, D L

AU - Rutter, M

AU - Angold, A

AU - Pickles, A

AU - Maes, H M

AU - Silberg, J L

AU - Eaves, L J

PY - 2005

Y1 - 2005

N2 - A community sample of 2798 8-17-years-old twins and their parents completed a personal interview about the child's current psychiatric history on two occasions separated by an average of 18 months. Parents also completed a personal interview about their own lifetime psychiatric history at entry to the study. Results indicate that informant agreement for overanxious disorder (OAD) was no better than chance, and most cases of OAD symptoms or presence of another disorder (mostly phobias or depression) accounted for most cases of informant disagreement: 60% of cases based only on child interview. OAD diagnosed only by maternal interview was also distinguished by an association with material alcoholism and increasingly discrepant parental reports of marital difficulties. Given the substanial overlap in case assignments for for DSM-III-R OAD and DSM-IV GAD, these findings may identify sources of informant disagreement that generalize to juvenile GAD. (C) 2004 Published by Elsevier Inc.

AB - A community sample of 2798 8-17-years-old twins and their parents completed a personal interview about the child's current psychiatric history on two occasions separated by an average of 18 months. Parents also completed a personal interview about their own lifetime psychiatric history at entry to the study. Results indicate that informant agreement for overanxious disorder (OAD) was no better than chance, and most cases of OAD symptoms or presence of another disorder (mostly phobias or depression) accounted for most cases of informant disagreement: 60% of cases based only on child interview. OAD diagnosed only by maternal interview was also distinguished by an association with material alcoholism and increasingly discrepant parental reports of marital difficulties. Given the substanial overlap in case assignments for for DSM-III-R OAD and DSM-IV GAD, these findings may identify sources of informant disagreement that generalize to juvenile GAD. (C) 2004 Published by Elsevier Inc.

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U2 - 10.1016/j.janxdis.2004.01.006

DO - 10.1016/j.janxdis.2004.01.006

M3 - Article

VL - 19

SP - 193

EP - 210

JO - Journal of Anxiety Disorders

JF - Journal of Anxiety Disorders

IS - 2

ER -