Comorbidity of Infectious Diseases and Anxiety Disorders in Adults and Its Association with Quality of Life: A Community Study

Frontiers in Public Health

Cornelia Witthauer¹ 

关键词: representative survey;    anxiety disorder;    comorbidity;    infectious diseases;    quality of life;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpubh.2014.00080

学科分类：卫生学

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Objective: Infectious diseases and anxiety disorders are common and both are associated with substantial burden to individual, families, and society. A better understanding of their association may be helpful in explicating possible etiological mechanisms related to both. The goal of the current study was to investigate the relationship between specific infectious diseases and anxiety disorders among adults in the community, and to examine whether the co-occurrence of the two is associated with poorer quality of life compared to subjects with one or neither condition.

【 授权许可】

CC BY