NPR (6/11, McCammon) reports that physicians “should start screening all women and girls for anxiety, according” to “guidelines issued by the Women’s Preventive Services Initiative.” Those guidelines “advise primary care doctors and other” healthcare professionals “to screen all female patients for anxiety disorders beginning at age 13.” NPR adds, “Dr. Jeanne Conry chairs the Women’s Preventive Services Initiative, a federally funded initiative administered by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.” She “says the group is recommending routine screening because patients who struggle with anxiety often don’t raise the issue with their” physicians. The clinical guideline recommendation was published online June 9 in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
Related Links:
— “All Women Should Be Screened For Anxiety Disorders, Health Group Says, “Sarah McCammon, NPR, June 11, 2020