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Korean Journal of Biological Psychiatry 2019;26(2):65-70. Published online: Feb, 1, 2019
Objectives
: The objective of this study is to investigate differences in clinical
characteristics between female panic disorder (PD) patients with abortion
history (PD+A) and without abortion history (PD-A).
Methods : We examined data from 341 female patients diagnosed with PD. We
divided the patients with PD into PD+A (82 patients) and PD-A (259 patients) to
compare demographic and clinical characteristics. The following instruments were
applied : stress coping strategies, NEO-neuroticism, the Anxiety Sensitivity
Index-Revised (ASI-R), the Albany Panic and Phobia Questionnaire (APPQ), the
Beck Depression Inventory, the Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI) and the Sheehan
Disability Scale.
Results : Compared to the PD-A, the PD+A group showed no significant
difference in coping strategies. However, significantly higher scores in
neuroticism, the ASI-R, the APPQ and the BAI were observed. In terms of
health-related disability, the PD+A group did not show significant difference.
Conclusions : Our results suggest that the PD+A group may differ from the
PD-A group in trait markers such as neuroticism and anxiety sensitivity, and
abortion history may be associated with panic-related symptom severity. Our
study suggests that further consideration is needed on such clinical
characteristics in PD patients with abortion history.
Keywords Panic disorder;Induced abortion;Anxiety sensitivity;Neuroticism.