Quality of Life and Panic-Related Work Disability in Subjects With Infrequent Panic and Panic Disorder

Panic & Plaques: Panic Disorder & Coronary Artery Disease in Patients with Chest Pain

“…The presence of chest pain during panic attacks has been linked to the presence and severity of phobic avoidance among community-dwelling persons (as opposed to hospitalized persons) with panic attacks, 40 and the severity of the chest pain has been associated with decreased life satisfaction and quality of life in community-dwelling individuals with panic attacks 41 and poor health status in emergency department patients presenting with chest pain. 42 In addition, 60% of chest pain patients with recent suicidal ideation who present to emergency departments have panic disorder.…”

Quality of life assessment by WHOQOL-BREF in panic disorder patients during treatment

“…This may be secondary to antecipatory anxiety or agoraphobic symptoms. A cross-sectional study reported that PD patients presented worse quality of life scores than those with rare PA, and these had worse scores than controls 23 . Recent literature indicates that higher severity of panic attacks and agoraphobia, prolonged PD course, major depression co-morbidity, problems in the primary care group, high interpersonal sensitivity, higher levels of neuroticism are some of the factors correlated with worse outcome among PD patients (11,22).…”

“…The physical and psychological health levels of PD patients are comparable to those of depressed patients 29 . Poor social support was one of the predictors of worse quality of life 23 . Problems in the primary care group are correlated with worse outcome among PD patients 22 .…”

Associations with subsyndromal panic and the validity of DSM-IV criteria

“…The association of subsyndromal panic with QOL and utilization may be due to increased comorbidity. In subjects with panic, QOL, comorbidity, and care-seeking are interrelated [Katerndahl, 1992;Katerndahl and Realini, 1993, 1996Realini and Katerndahl, 1993].…”

“…Total panic-related work disability was measured as the sum of five yes-no items, with a total score of 0-5. Internal consistencies of the QOL and work disability instruments are 0.60 and 0.74, respectively [Katerndahl and Realini, 1996].…”