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Clinical Variants and Types of Course of Separation Anxiety Disorder in Adults

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Objectives. To study the clinical manifestations of separation anxiety disorder (SAD) in adults with nonpsychotic mental disorders. Materials and methods. A clinical psychopathological method, clinical interviews (MINI), structured clinical interviews for separation anxiety symptoms (SCI-SAS), and psychometric methods for assessment of separation anxiety (ASA-27), nonspecific anxiety (HARS), attachment style (ECR), personality (PID-5 scale), and quality of life (Q-LES-Q) were used to investigate 50 out-patients with SAD aged over 18 years. Results and conclusions. Two clinical variants of the disorder were identified – affective and cognitive-behavioral, as were two variants of the course – with childhood onset and with manifestation in adulthood, which differed in terms of the spectrum of comorbidities, the figures and styles of attachments, and personality characteristics; correlational relationships and prognoses were also studied.

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  1. Serbsky National Medical Research Center for Psychiatry and Narcology, Russian Ministry of Health, Moscow, Russia

    I. A. Arkusha, K. V. Zakharova & A. S. Avedisova

  2. Soloviev Scientific and Practical Psychoneurological Center, Moscow Health Department, Moscow, Russia

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Translated from Zhurnal Nevrologii i Psikhiatrii imeni S. S. Korsakova, Vol. 121, No. 5, Iss. 1, pp. 19–25, May, 2021.

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Arkusha, I.A., Zakharova, K.V., Zinchuk, M.S. et al. Clinical Variants and Types of Course of Separation Anxiety Disorder in Adults. Neurosci Behav Physi 52, 336–342 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11055-022-01245-z

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