Anxiety Disorders in People with Intellectual Disabilities: the Best Treatment for Properly Modulate Activities of Daily Living

Psychiatr Danub. 2023 Oct;35(Suppl 2):182-184.

Abstract

The article explores the correlation between intellectual disability and anxiety and how much they occur together. People with intellectual disability have comorbidity disorders of all types 3 to 4 times higher than the general population and the anxiety, can create difficulties in the context of social inclusion caused by insecurity and worries felt from who is affected by this pathology.

Keywords: intellectual disabilities – anxiety – double diagnosis.

MeSH terms

  • Activities of Daily Living
  • Anxiety / etiology
  • Anxiety Disorders / epidemiology
  • Anxiety Disorders / therapy
  • Humans
  • Intellectual Disability* / epidemiology
  • Intellectual Disability* / therapy