Kindheit und Entwicklung
Volume 24, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 252-262

Anxiety disorders in migrant and nonmigrant children: Risk factors and treatment success [Angststörungen bei Kindern mit und ohne Migrationshintergrund: Risikofaktoren und Behandlungserfolg] (Article)

Kouider E.B. , Lorenz A.L. , Dupont M. , Petermann F.
  • a Klinik für Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie and Psychotherapie, Klinikum Bremen-Ost, Züricher Straße 4, Bremen, 28325, Germany
  • b Klinik für Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie and Psychotherapie, Klinikum Bremen-Ost, Züricher Straße 4, Bremen, 28325, Germany
  • c Klinik für Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie and Psychotherapie, Klinikum Bremen-Ost, Züricher Straße 4, Bremen, 28325, Germany
  • d Zentrum für Klinische Psychologie und Rehabilitation, Universität Bremen, Grazer Straße 6, Bremen, 28359, Germany

Abstract

In this study we examined a child and adolescent psychiatric health-care population of Bremen, focusing on children under 12 years of age (N = 1,518) with anxiety disorders (N = 260). Using logistic regressions we identified risk factors in anxiety disorders and analyzed the success of treatment. Neither in the prevalence of anxiety disorders nor in treatment success were ethnic differences found. Only female gender was identified as a risk factor for anxiety disorders. The interaction of gender and migration status gave a higher prevalence of anxiety disorders in migrant boys. On the basis of the present results, psychotherapeutic treatment for anxiety disorders should focus less on social or familial aspects. © Hogrefe Verlag, Göttingen 2015.

Author Keywords

Treatment success Use of child and adolescent psychiatric care risk factors Anxiety disorders Ethnicity

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Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84942067755&doi=10.1026%2f0942-5403%2fa000181&partnerID=40&md5=74be4050fab305cb0268399cbea37ba6
DOI: 10.1026/0942-5403/a000181
ISSN: 09425403
Cited by: 2
Original Language: German