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Anxiety disorder diagnoses in office-based settings increased for children through the mid-2010s, but recent changes in diagnosis and treatment are not well understood. The objectives of the current study were to evaluate recent trends in anxiety disorder diagnosis and treatment among children, adolescents, and young adults.

This study used serial cross-sectional data from the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (2006–2018), a nationally representative annual survey of US office-based visits. Changes in anxiety disorder diagnosis and 4 treatment categories (therapy alone, therapy and medications, medications alone, or neither) are described across 3 periods (2006–2009, 2010–2013, 2014–2018 …