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Article
Anxiety Disorder in Adolescent and the Importance of Primary Health Care to Identify This Illness
Author(s)
Daniel Ferreira Moraes de Sousa1, Julia de Lima Cabra1, Mylena Varela Santos Oliveira1 and Lara Cândida de Sousa Machado2
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DOI:10.17265/2328-7136/2018.05.009
Affiliation(s)
1. The Department of Medicine, University of Rio Verde (UniRV) 75900, Brazil
2. Medical School, University of Rio Verde (UniRV), 75900, Brazil
ABSTRACT
Introduction: Adolescence,
is a life stage characterized by constant emotional instability and
psychological conflicts. Analyzing the age of psychological transition of these
adolescents along with the environment demands that those ones live, in
conclusion, there are conflicts between particularities of intern and extern
environment, besides self-knowledge of these adolescents, ending up in what we
call AD (anxiety disorder). Objective: Raise reader’s awareness about the early
recognition of ADs and stress. Methodology: Based on literature review. The virtual library Scielo and
the Latin American Journal of Nursing were mainly consulted. Results: The AD is
characterized as a mental health disturbance, which has as main symptoms
feelings of preoccupation, anxiety or fear which are strong enough to interfere
in daily activities. Its detection should be as early as possible, therefore,
primary health care is the most efficient to prevent and detect this illness.
Conclusion: It is possible to assure
that primary health care (periodical medical check) has great impact on detecting and
preventing the anxiety disorder in adolescent, since mental health
professionals have used many working instruments which are useful for detecting this illness.
KEYWORDS
Anxiety, primary health care, depression.
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