Relationship between high trait anxiety in 22q11.2 deletion syndrome and the difficulties in medical, welfare, and educational services.
Naomi NakajimaMiho TanakaAkiko KaneharaRyo MorishimaYousuke KumakuraNoriko OhkouchiJunko HamadaTomoko OgawaHidetaka TamuneMutsumi NakaharaShunsuke MoriKayo IchihashiSeiichiro JindeYukiko KanoIchiro SakamotoKyoko TanakaYoichiro HirataHirofumi OhashiTokuko ShinoharaKiyoto KasaiPublished in: PCN reports : psychiatry and clinical neurosciences (2023)
To our knowledge, this is the first study to clarify quantitatively how the characteristic of high anxiety level in 22q11DS individuals is related to the caregivers' perceived difficulties in medical, welfare, and educational services. These results suggest the necessity of designing service structures informed of the fact that high trait anxiety is an important clinical feature of the syndrome.