Comparison of Early Trauma History between Young/Middle Adulthood Patients and Earlier/Later Older Adulthood Patients with Panic Disorder.
- Author:
Ji Eun KIM
1
;
In Han SONG
;
Kang Soo LEE
;
Sang Hyuk LEE
Author Information
1. Graduate School of Social Welfare, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea.
- Publication Type:Original Article
- Keywords:
Panic disorder;
Young/middle adulthood;
Earlier/later older adulthood;
Symptom severity;
Early trauma
- MeSH:
Age Factors;
Humans;
Panic Disorder*;
Panic*;
Phobic Disorders;
Physical Abuse;
Sex Offenses
- From:Journal of Korean Geriatric Psychiatry
2016;20(2):53-60
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the early trauma history between young/middle adulthood patients and earlier/later older adulthood patients with panic disorder (PD). METHODS: 216 patients with PD and 76 healthy controls (HCs) were included for analysis. Patients with PD were operationally dichotomized into two groups of young/middle adulthood (age below 50 years) and earlier/later older adulthood (age 50 years or over) to compare the early trauma history between two groups. Data of sociodemographic factors, self-reported shortened form of the Early Trauma Inventory (ETI), and the Albany Panic and Phobia Questionnaire (APPQ) were analyzed. RESULTS: Patients with PD showed higher scores of ETI than HCs. Young/middle adulthood PD showed statistically significantly higher levels of general trauma (t=-2.088, p=0.041), physical abuse (t=-2.456, p=0.014), emotional abuse (t=-3.690, p=0.000), and total scores of trauma (t=-3.534, p=0.001) except sexual abuse. In the young/middle adulthood PD group, ETI scores were significantly correlated with APPQ scores while no significant correlation with ETI was found in earlier/later older adulthood PD. CONCLUSION: These results show that PD is statistically associated with early trauma history and that early trauma history is more significantly related with PD in young/middle adulthood than earlier/later older adulthood. These findings suggest that the age factor should be considered in clinical practice for patients with PD.
