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KMID : 0368820230620010063
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Journal of the Korean Neuropsychiatr Association
2023 Volume.62 No. 1 p.63 ~ p.69
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Body Awareness in Patients With Depression and/or Anxiety Disorder
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Lee Su-Jin
Kim Hyeong-Beom
Huh Hyu-Jung
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Abstract
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Objectives The objective of the present study was to examine whether patients with severedepression and/or anxiety show a difference in the level of body awareness compared with thatof healthy controls.
Methods Outpatients (n=100) with a diagnosis of moderate to severe depression and/or anxiety and 42 healthy controls were included in the study. Body awareness was assessed with theMultidimensional Assessment of Interoceptive Awareness (MAIA) scale, and other clinical characteristics like anxiety and depression were measured using the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory andPatient Health Questionnaire, respectively. The data were analyzed using ANCOVA, and statistically significant differences between the two groups in both the overall MAIA score and subscalescores were documented.
Results The overall MAIA scores of patients with depression and/or anxiety were significantlylower than that of healthy subjects. Specifically, the differences found in the subscales of trust,acceptance, attention-regulation, and return-to-body were significant, whereas the differencesfound in the subscales of notice and mind-to-body awareness were not.
Conclusion These findings imply that the ability to monitor one’s own bodily sensations and tobe aware of their connection with emotional states cannot serve as a marker for psychologicalwell-being. Rather, it may be the aspects of attentional styles and attitudes toward bodily statesthat play a critical role in mental health. Further analyses examining the relationships between thesubscales of body awareness and other psychological variables are deemed necessary.
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KEYWORD
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Interoception, Anxiety, Depression
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