Comorbid Depression in Youth Anxiety Treatment Outcomes

Depression and Anxiety are known to be one of the most common health disorders amongst youth. “Anxiety disorders are present in 10–20% of youth and depression has a lifetime prevalence of approximately 20% by late adolescence, and 2–6% prevalence at any given time (Frank, Titone, Kagan et al., 2020).” The findings in this article examined the relationship between comorbid depression and anxiety treatment which results were mixed. This study indicated that depression comorbidity in children with anxiety disorders was significantly associated at pretreatment with higher severity of primary…