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The attributable burden of panic disorder in the impairment of quality of life in a national survey in Italy

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  • Mauro Giovanni Carta
  • Maria Francesca Moro
  • Eugenio Aguglia
  • Matteo Balestrieri
  • Filippo Caraci
  • Liliana Dell’Osso
  • Guido Di Sciascio
  • Filippo Drago
  • Maria Carolina Hardoy
  • Ernesto D’Aloja
  • Sergio Machado
  • Rita Roncone
  • Carlo Faravelli

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Introduction/Objective: The aim was to measure the lifetime prevalence of panic disorder (PD) in an Italian community sample, and to estimate the burden attributable to PD in compromising the quality of life (QoL) of people diagnosed with it. Methods: Community survey was conducted on a sample of 4,999 randomly selected adult subjects. Instruments used were semi-structured clinical interview Advanced Neuropsychiatric Tools and Assessment Schedule (ANTAS), administered by clinicians and allowing diagnosis according to Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorder (4th ed.; DSM-IV); Short Form Health Survey (SF-12). Results: The lifetime prevalence of PD was 3.6% (4.4% in females, 2.5% in males; p  = .002). People with PD had a lower SF-12 score than the standardized community sample (35.5 ± 6.5 vs. 38.4 ± 5.9; p  

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  • Mauro Giovanni Carta & Maria Francesca Moro & Eugenio Aguglia & Matteo Balestrieri & Filippo Caraci & Liliana Dell’Osso & Guido Di Sciascio & Filippo Drago & Maria Carolina Hardoy & Ernesto D’Aloj, 2015. "The attributable burden of panic disorder in the impairment of quality of life in a national survey in Italy," International Journal of Social Psychiatry, , vol. 61(7), pages 693-699, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:socpsy:v:61:y:2015:i:7:p:693-699
    DOI: 10.1177/0020764015573848
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