The phrase "a current anxiety" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a feeling of worry or concern that is presently affecting someone or a group of people.
Example: "The report highlights a current anxiety among employees regarding job security in the wake of recent layoffs."
Alternatives: "a prevailing concern" or "an ongoing worry."
Children were not allowed to have a current anxiety disorder.
Ten met criteria for a current anxiety disorder, either alone (4) or with depression (6).
For 136 of the children, their mothers also fulfilled diagnostic criteria for a current anxiety disorder (ANX), and for 135 children, their mothers did not fulfill diagnostic criteria for a current anxiety disorder (NONANX).
We adopted the standardised psychiatric diagnosis of a current anxiety disorder as the "criterion" for the 4DSQ Anxiety score.
The NONANX group was included on the basis of not meeting criteria for a current anxiety disorder.
Among participants reporting current IBS, 27.5% (95% CI 17.0 - 38.1) also fulfilled the criteria for a current anxiety or mood disorder (table 1).
To that end, he sees job insecurity, zero-hours contracts and the housing shortage as issues that might serve as a bridge – linking current anxiety about the cost of living with the larger question of the widening chasms between rich and poor which, as he said in his lecture, "scar our society and prevent the common life I believe in for our country".
The STAI [ 27] is a self-rated scale that measures current anxiety symptoms on a scale of 1 to 4 (1 = almost never; 4 = almost always).
His greatest current anxiety is a disintegration of Nick Clegg's position followed by a collapse of the coalition as a whole.
The 20-item self-report State Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) [ 17], a self-report measure of current anxiety symptoms, focusing on another specific facet of emotional distress, was used to determine whether anxiety and depressive symptoms are differentially related to transplantation outcomes.
Subjects were judged to have an anxiety disorder when they fulfilled the according criteria on the MINI (current anxiety disorder) and/or had a BAI ≥ 16 points or LSAS ≥ 30 points, consistent with moderate-severe anxiety.
