PMID: 2482973Jan 1, 1989Paper

Avoidance behaviour and major depression in panic disorder: a report from the Cross-National Collaborative Panic Study.

Psychiatric Developments
W MaierO Benkert

Abstract

Avoidance behaviour and secondary major depression are both frequent in clinical samples of patients with panic disorder. Their status is unclear: indicators of severity of panic disorder or indicators of separate psychiatric disorders. Among the data of the Cross-National Collaborative Panic Study (n = 1,168) we found that especially avoidance behaviour defines more severe states of panic disorder (earlier age at onset, higher frequency of panic attacks and higher level of psychopathology); co-occurrence of major depression is less clearly associated with more severe panic disorder. The results are compatible with the DSM-III-R concepts of comorbidity of panic disorder and major depression and of subtyping panic disorder by avoidance behaviour.

Related Concepts

Related Feeds

Anxiety Disorders

Discover the latest research on anxiety disorders including agoraphobia, panic disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder here.

Related Papers

The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry : Official Journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry
John CairneyDavid L Streiner
© 2022 Meta ULC. All rights reserved