Intolerance of Uncertainty, anxiety, and worry in children and adolescents: A meta-analysis

摘要

Anxiety disorders are among the most common mental health problems; the lifetime prevalence of anxiety disorders is estimated as 28.8% with onset usually in childhood and adolescence (Kessler et al., 2005). Anxiety disorders follow a chronic course (Costello et al., 2003), aect daily life (Jarrett et al., 2015; Paulus et al., 2015), and are associated with signicant global burden (Whiteford et al., 2013). CognitiveBehaviour Therapy(CBT)foranxiety disordersinyoungpeopleis eective, with recent data showing 58.9% of the children and adolescents were free from any anxiety diagnosis following CBT (James et al., 2015).