Area deprivation and generalised anxiety disorder in a British community cohort: findings from the EPIC-Norfolk study

BackgroundGeneralised anxiety disorder, one of the most common anxiety disorders in the general population, has been associated with disability, impairment, and high health service use. Whereas the effect of individual-level socioeconomic status on generalised anxiety disorder has been well researched, an understanding of the links between area-level (contextual) measures of deprivation and this disorder is less clear. Deprivation has been …