Generalised Anxiety Disorder in Adults : The NICE Guideline on Management in Primary, Secondary and Community Care

This clinical guideline, commissioned by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) sets out clear recommendations, based on the best available evidence, for health care professionals on how to work with people with generalised anxiety disorder (GAD), in order to improve their treatment and care. GAD which is a common mental health problem and often co-occurs with other anxiety and depressive disorders. This guideline reviews the evidence for low- and high-intensity psychological interventions and drug treatments, and also gives an insight into the experience of care of people with GAD. It comes with a free CD-ROM that contains all the data used as evidence, including: included and excluded studies, profile tables that summarise both the quality of the evidence and the results of the evidence synthesis, all meta-analytical data, presented as forest plots and detailed information about how to use and interpret forest plots.