Rebecca J Hamblin1, Adam B Lewin2, Alison Salloum3, Erika A Crawford4, Nicole M McBride5, Eric A Storch6. 1. Department of Pediatrics, University of South Florida, USA; Rogers Behavioral Health-Tampa Bay, USA. Electronic address: rhamblin@rogersbh.org. 2. Department of Pediatrics, University of South Florida, USA; Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Neurosciences, University of South Florida, USA; Department of Psychology, University of South Florida, USA. 3. Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Neurosciences, University of South Florida, USA. 4. Department of Psychology, Temple University, USA. 5. Department of Pediatrics, University of South Florida, USA. 6. Department of Pediatrics, University of South Florida, USA; Rogers Behavioral Health-Tampa Bay, USA; Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Neurosciences, University of South Florida, USA; Department of Psychology, University of South Florida, USA; Department of Health Policy and Management, University of South Florida, USA; All Children's Hospital-Johns Hopkins Medicine, Department of Social Work, University of South Florida, USA.
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: This investigation was conducted to describe the clinical of characteristics of anxious children with significant hoarding behavior and to examine the contributions of anxiety, obsessive compulsive, and inattentive and hyperactive/impulsive symptoms in the prediction of hoarding. METHOD: One hundred nine children seeking treatment for an anxiety disorder and their parents completed clinician-administered and parent-report measures of emotional and behavioral symptoms, functional impairment, and hoarding symptoms. RESULTS: Elevated levels of hoarding were reported for 22% of the sample. Children with elevated hoarding scored significantly higher on measures of anxiety, obsessive-compulsive, attention, social, and thought problems, rule-breaking, aggression, and overall functional impairment and had higher rates of major depressive disorder than children without hoarding. Attention problems predicted hoarding symptomology over-and-above the contributions of either anxiety or obsessive-compulsive symptoms. CONCLUSIONS: Findings suggest a pattern of behavioral and emotional dysregulation for children who hoard and provide further insight into the relationships between anxiety, attention problems, and hoarding.
OBJECTIVE: This investigation was conducted to describe the clinical of characteristics of anxious children with significant hoarding behavior and to examine the contributions of anxiety, obsessive compulsive, and inattentive and hyperactive/impulsive symptoms in the prediction of hoarding. METHOD: One hundred nine children seeking treatment for an anxiety disorder and their parents completed clinician-administered and parent-report measures of emotional and behavioral symptoms, functional impairment, and hoarding symptoms. RESULTS: Elevated levels of hoarding were reported for 22% of the sample. Children with elevated hoarding scored significantly higher on measures of anxiety, obsessive-compulsive, attention, social, and thought problems, rule-breaking, aggression, and overall functional impairment and had higher rates of major depressive disorder than children without hoarding. Attention problems predicted hoarding symptomology over-and-above the contributions of either anxiety or obsessive-compulsive symptoms. CONCLUSIONS: Findings suggest a pattern of behavioral and emotional dysregulation for children who hoard and provide further insight into the relationships between anxiety, attention problems, and hoarding.
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