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The Comorbidity And Temporal Relationship Between Anxiety Disorders, Eating Disorders, And Personality Disorders, Mitchell C. Duross
The Comorbidity And Temporal Relationship Between Anxiety Disorders, Eating Disorders, And Personality Disorders, Mitchell C. Duross
Theses and Dissertations--Public Health (M.P.H. & Dr.P.H.)
Background - Population-level data on the prevalence of comorbidity between anxiety-, eating-, and personality disorders remain relatively unexplored. Additionally, the potential existence of a temporal relationship among these three classes of mental disorder is also of interest.
Methods - Lifetime prevalence of, and temporal relationships among, anxiety-, eating-, and personality disorders were assessed using Part II WHO Composite International Diagnostic Interview data from the National Comorbidity Survey- Replication, a nationally representative household survey (n=5692).
Results - Lifetime prevalence estimates for any anxiety-, eating-, and personality disorder were 59.8%, 2.8%, and 13.5%, respectively, among those diagnosed with at least one core …