TABLE 1.
Demographics for the healthy and anxious groups
| Healthy (n = 22) |
Anxious (n = 33) |
Significance | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sex (n/female) | 13 | 18 | ns |
| Age | 13.42 (2.15) | 12.47 (2.96) | ns |
| IQ total score | 115.76 (13.51) | 109.12 (14.29) | ns |
| Vocabularya | 60.30 (9.29) | 55.88 (10.29) | ns |
| Matrix reasoninga | 58.60 (6.81) | 55.84 (10.59) | ns |
| SES | 36.89 (14.66) | 36.40 (16.01) | ns |
| SCARED child | 6.82 (5.49) | 33.43 (11.11) | P < .001 |
| SCARED parent | 2.86 (5.11) | 30.75 (11.91) | P < .001 |
| CDI | 40.23 (7.94) | 52.72 (9.71) | P < .001 |
| Diagnosesb: N (%) | |||
| GAD | - | 20 (60.60) | |
| SP | - | 21 (63.63) | |
| SAD | - | 9 (27.27) | |
| Panic | - | 1 (3.03) | |
| MDD | - | 4 (12.12) | |
| ADHD | - | 2 (6.06) |
a
T score.
SES, socioeconomic status; SCARED, Screen for Childhood Anxiety-Related Emotional Disorders; CDI, Child Depression Inventory; GAD, generalized anxiety disorder; SP, social phobia; SAD, separation anxiety disorder; MDD, major depressive disorder; ADHD, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
b
several co-morbid diagnoses were possible.