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. 2010 Aug;24(6):559-64.
doi: 10.1016/j.janxdis.2010.03.015. Epub 2010 Apr 2.

Health-related Quality of Life across the anxiety disorders: findings from a sample of primary care patients

Courtney Beard  1 , Risa B Weisberg, Martin B Keller
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Health-related Quality of Life across the anxiety disorders: findings from a sample of primary care patients

Courtney Beard et al. J Anxiety Disord. 2010 Aug.

Abstract

Previous studies have not compared Health-related Quality of Life (HR-QoL) across all DSM-IV anxiety disorders and comorbid conditions. We compared the effects of each anxiety disorder on HR-QoL, controlling for demographic variables, medical conditions, and comorbid Axis I disorders. Data are obtained from the Primary Care Anxiety Project (PCAP), a naturalistic, longitudinal study of anxiety disorders in 539 primary care patients. Each of the anxiety disorders was associated with worse self-reported physical and mental functioning compared to general population means. While all of the anxiety disorders were univariate predictors of specific domains of HR-QoL, only presence of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and comorbid Depressive Disorder (MDD) uniquely predicted worse functioning on both self-report and interview measures. The current study extends previous research by showing that different anxiety disorders and comorbid conditions may be associated with impairment in specific domains of HR-QoL.

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Physical Component Score Note: Due to comorbidity, the disorder categories are NOT mutually exclusive. For example, ALL participants in the MDD group also had at least one anxiety disorder.
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Mental Component Score
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