Clinical Characteristics of Female Panic Disorder with Early Sexual Abuse History.
- Author:
Kyung Min KIM
1
;
Min Kyoung KIM
;
Kang Soo LEE
;
Tai Kiu CHOI
;
Sang Hyuk LEE
Author Information
1. Department of Psychiatry, CHA Bundang Medical Center, CHA University, Seongnam, Korea. drshlee27@gmail.com
- Publication Type:Original Article
- Keywords:
Panic disorder;
Early sexual abuse
- MeSH:
Anxiety;
Depression;
Female*;
Humans;
Panic Disorder*;
Panic*;
Phobic Disorders;
Sex Offenses*
- From:Journal of the Korean Society of Biological Psychiatry
2016;23(4):130-139
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
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.
