Korean J Biol Psychiatry.  2016 Nov;23(4):130-139. 10.0000/kjbp.2016.23.4.130.

Clinical Characteristics of Female Panic Disorder with Early Sexual Abuse History

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  • 1Department of Psychiatry, CHA Bundang Medical Center, CHA University, Seongnam, Korea. drshlee27@gmail.com

Abstract


OBJECTIVES
The objective of this study is to investigate differences of clinical characteristics between a healthy female control group and female panic disorder (PD) patients with early sexual abuse history (PD+S) and without early sexual abuse history (PD-S).
METHODS
We examined data from 83 patients diagnosed with PD and 20 healthy control subjects. We divided the patients with PD into PD+S (32 patients) and PD-S (51 patients) to compare demographic and clinical characteristics. The following instruments were applied: the Stress coping strategies, the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) , the Panic Disorder Severity Scale, the Anxiety Sensitivity Index-Revised (ASI-R), the Albany Panic and Phobia Questionnaire (APPQ) and the NEO-neuroticism.
RESULTS
Compared to the PD-S, the PD+S group showed higher scores in neuroticism and the APPQ. And, in the PD+S group, the scores of neuroticism were correlated with the ASI-R and APPQ subscale scores and the APPQ total scores were associated with the scores of BDI.
CONCLUSIONS
This study shows that female PD+S patients have higher scores in neuroticism and the APPQ than the PD-S group, and these factors are associated with the panic-related symptoms severity. It emphasizes the need of specific strategies considering the childhood abuse history such as early sexual abuse in clinical approach among patients with PD.

Keyword

Panic disorder; Early sexual abuse

MeSH Terms

Anxiety
Depression
Female*
Humans
Panic Disorder*
Panic*
Phobic Disorders
Sex Offenses*
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