Patient-voice layer — generalized anxiety disorder¶
Purpose. To record what people living with generalized anxiety disorder say about it, as a body of evidence sitting alongside the trial and epidemiological literature — not as decoration for it. Where patient-reported priorities contradict the research agenda, that contradiction is content.
Files
| File | Contents |
|---|---|
organizations.md |
Directory of patient and mental-health organisations relevant to GAD worldwide. Every entry was retrieved live on the stated access date; HTTP status and page title are recorded. Organisations that could not be verified are listed as unverified, and one that has closed is recorded as closed. |
themes.md |
Thematic synthesis. Every theme rests on ≥2 independent sources and is reported in aggregate. |
sources.md |
Annotated source list — peer-reviewed qualitative studies, organisation pages, and public statistics portals — with an honest coverage-limits note. |
Method¶
- Peer-reviewed qualitative and patient-reported evidence was identified through PubMed E-utilities searches run on 2026-09-02, combining GAD/anxiety terms with qualitative, lived-experience, help-seeking, stigma, treatment-preference and withdrawal terms. Studies were included when participants were adults or young people with anxiety disorders (GAD-specific where available) and the study reported participants' own accounts.
- Organisation pages were retrieved directly by HTTP request on 2026-09-02; the HTTP status code and
<title>element of each retrieved page were recorded. Sites returning 403/404 are marked as such rather than being described from memory. - Themes were built only where at least two independent sources supported them, and are stated at the level of the group, never the individual.
Ethics rules observed (CONVENTIONS §3)¶
- Public sources only. Nothing here comes from private forums, closed groups, clinical records, or any non-public communication.
- Paraphrase over quotation. Quotations are ≤15 words and attributed to a published source, not to a person.
- No identifying details of private individuals. No names, no locations, no ages tied to specific accounts, no reconstructable case descriptions. Organisation spokespeople and public figures may be named; none are named here because none were needed.
- Aggregate reporting. Themes describe patterns across participants in published studies, never a single person's story.
- Attributed testimony stays with its source. Where an organisation publishes lived-experience narratives on its own site, this layer records that the material exists and what kind of material it is; it does not reproduce individual stories.
- No inference about individuals. Nothing here should be read as describing, diagnosing, or characterising any particular person.
Scope boundary¶
This layer covers generalized anxiety disorder. Where a source addresses anxiety disorders as a group, that is stated explicitly, because a pooled anxiety-disorder finding is not a GAD finding — the same rule that governs the wiki pages. Perinatal and paediatric material is included where GAD-relevant and cross-linked to special populations. PTSD is a neighbouring condition curated separately.
Last curated: 2026-09-02.