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Social Phobia Is Associated with Delayed Onset of Chickenpox, Measles, and Mumps Infections

Year: 2016

Type: article

Study design: Observational Study

Abstract: OBJECTIVE: Evidence showing that infectious diseases in childhood play an important role in the etiopathogenesis of neurodevelopmental and other mental disorders is growing. The aim of this study was to explore the timing of common childhood diseases in early-onset anxiety disorders. MATERIALS AND METHODS: = 3720). In this study, we regressed overanxious disorder, separation anxiety disorder, social phobia, and specific phobias on the age of onset of several childhood diseases, always adjusting for the other anxiety disorders listed above and for sex. RESULTS: The timing of viral childhood diseases (chickenpox, measles, and mumps) was consistently delayed in social phobia, notably both in men and women. We found no evidence for a reversed sequence of onset of phobia symptoms before that of the infections included. CONCLUSION: Social phobia was the only early anxiety disorder to show an association with a delayed onset of common viral childhood diseases.

Source: Frontiers in Psychiatry

DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2016.00203

Authors: Vladeta Ajdacic-Gross, Aleksandra Aleksandrowicz, Stephanie Rodgers, Mario Müller, Wolfram Kawohl, Wulf Rössler, Enrique Castelao, Caroline Vandeleur, Roland von Känel, Margot Mutsch, Roselind Lieb, Martin Preisig

Institutions: University of Zurich, Psychiatrische Universitätsklinik Zürich, Universidade de São Paulo, ETH Zurich, Collegium Helveticum, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, University Hospital of Bern, Klinik Barmelweid, University of Basel

Language: English

Topic: Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development

Subfield: Clinical Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $3,801

Funder: Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung

Awards: Cardiovascular diseases and psychiatric disorders in the general population: a prospective follow-up study, Cardiovascular diseases and psychiatric disorders in the general population: a prospective follow-up study, Family study of specific subthreshold and threshold mood, anxiety, substance use and schizophrenia spectrum syndromes in the general population, Psychiatric disorders in 35 to 65 year-old residents of the city of Lausanne and their association to cardiovasular risk factors: a population based survey, Cardiovascular diseases and psychiatric disorders in the general population: a prospective follow-up study

OpenAlex ID: W2564529691

FWCI: 1.658

Cites: 33

Cited by: 6

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