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KMID : 0605719970030020151
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Journal of the Korean Society of Biological Therapies in Psychiatry
1997 Volume.3 No. 2 p.151 ~ p.167
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Long-term Follow-up Study of Panic Disorder
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Kim Hee-Cheol
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Abstract
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Objectives : The author investigated long-term outcome of panic disorder and examined factors related to the outcome of naturalistically treated panic disorder.
Methods : The subjects were 43 panic patients who were initially visited to psychiatric department of Keimyung University Dongsan Hospital. Sociodemographic datas, clinical characteristics at first episode and follow-up assessments, and degree of social adjustment at follow-up assessment were examined. The subjects were divided into two groups according to clinical outcome(27 improved versus 16 unimproved group). Sociodemographic and clinical characteristics between the two groups were evaluated.
Results : Mean follow-up period of this study was 51.6 months. At follow-up assessment 81.4% of subjects reported at least moderate improvement since their initial clinic contact. Although only 14.0% claimed to be completely free of symptoms, 62.8% rated their illness at follow-up as mild. A third of subjects were impaired on the performance of social activity. Comparing with Improved and unimproved group, the higher socioeconomic group was tended to be more In Improved group and the religlous group was tended to be more in unimproved group, but these tendencys were tool
statistically significant. There were no significant difference between the two groups on the other sociodemographic characteristics and clinical characteristics.
Conclusion : This study presented that the long-term outcome of panic disorder was relalively favourable in clinical aspect but social outcome was somewhat more decreased than clinical outcome and clinical factors related to the outcome of panic disorder were absent.
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