Childhood Anxiety May Be Associated With School Attendance Or Truancy Problems, Review Suggests

Reuters (3/22, Rapaport) reported that a review suggests children “with school attendance or truancy problems might be suffering from anxiety.” Investigators came to this conclusion after reviewing “eight previously published studies with a total of almost 26,000 young students from Europe, North America and Asia.” The findings were published online Feb. 27 in Child and Adolescent Mental Health.

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— “Childhood anxiety tied to school absences, “Lisa Rapaport, Reuters, March 22, 2019

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