QUALITY OF LIFE IN PATIENTS WITH PANIC DISORDER, AND ITS DETERMINANT FACTORS


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Scientific Research Centre, Department of Pathology of Autonomic Nervous System, Moscow According to the classification registers, panic disorder (PD) is a mental illness, but most of the patients refer to internal medicine specialists. Using the SF-36 questionnaire, we evaluated the quality of life (QOL) of 70 patients with PD and 50 healthy individuals. Compared with the healthy population, patients with PD have a low overall QOL - 52,4 points vs 84,7 in healthy subjects (p = 0,0001) due to reducing the physical and mental health components. In patients with severe PD (disease duration of more than five years, social maladjustment, comorbid agoraphobia), subjective measurement of deteriorating physical health component worsened. The conviction of patients that a their violation of activity is primarily caused by disorder of physical health may explain the preference that patients with PD give to general practitioners, resulting in inadequate treatment of this category of patients.

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