Self-reported life satisfaction and treatment factors in patients with schizophrenia, major depression and anxiety disorder

2007 ◽  
Vol 99 (5) ◽  
pp. 377-384 ◽  
Author(s):  
H.T. Koivumaa-Honkanen ◽  
R. Honkanen ◽  
R. Antikainen ◽  
J. Hintikka ◽  
H. Viinamäki
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Anxiety Disorder ◽  
Major Depression ◽  
Depression And Anxiety

Migraine, Major Depression and Panic Disorder: A Prospective Epidemiologic Study of Young Adults

Cephalalgia ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 85-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naomi Breslau ◽  
Glenn C Davis
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Anxiety Disorder ◽  
Major Depression ◽  
Panic Disorder ◽  
Epidemiologic Study ◽  
Prior History ◽  
Depression And Anxiety ◽  
History Of ◽  
One Year

We examined prospectively the risk for major depression (MDD) and panic disorder in persons with prior history of migraine. A random sample of 995 young adults was interviewed in 1989 and reinterviewed in 1990. A history of migraine at baseline increased fourfold the risk for MDD during the follow-up interval. A history of any anxiety disorder exacerbated the risk for MDD in persons with migraine. Persons with a history of migraine were twelve times more likely to become cases of panic disorder than those with no history of migraine. The risk for MDD and/or panic disorder was unrelated to whether or not migraine was active during the year preceding the baseline interview or in remission for more than one year. The findings suggest that migraine, major depression and anxiety disorders might share common predispositions.

The Comorbidity of Anxiety and Depression

1997 ◽  
Vol 31 (5) ◽  
pp. 700-703 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Rodney ◽  
Nigel Prior ◽  
Betty Cooper ◽  
Mike Theodoros ◽  
Joanne Browning ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Anxiety Disorder ◽  
Major Depression ◽  
Anxiety Disorders ◽  
Depressive Episode ◽  
Major Depressive Episode ◽  
Study Cohort ◽  
Depression And Anxiety ◽  
Major Depressive ◽  
Comorbid Anxiety ◽  
Significant Difference

Objective: This study explored the effect of comohid anxiety disorders in patients admitted to an inpatient specialist Mood Disorders Unit for the treatment of a primary major depressive episode. Method: Subjects were assessed on admission and discharge. DSM-Ill-R diagnoses for major depression and anxiety disorders were established using CIDI-Auto; cornorbid anxiety disorders were coexistent in time with the major depression, with both conditions meeting diagnostic criteria at the time of assessment. Severity of illness was assessed using the Hamilton DepressiodMelancholia Scale, the revised Hamilton Anxiety Scale and the revised Beck Depression Inventory. Results: For the analysis, the study cohort was divided into three groups: depression alone (n = 33), one comorbid anxiety disorder (n = 15), and two or more comorbid anxiety disorders (n = 24). No particular anxiety disorder predominated. Interestingly, the presence or absence of comorbid anxiety with severe major depression made no significant difference to treatment choice or outcome results. Specifically, there was no significant difference between the three groups in the utilisation of electroconvulsive therapy and pharmacotherapy (including antidepres-sants, benzodiazepines and neuroleptics); all subjects improved significantly on both depression and anxiety ratings, and length of inpatient stay did not vary significantly between the three groups. Conclusions: The existence of comorbid anxiety disorders in those patients who presented for treatment of a primary major depressive episode did not significantly effect choice of treatment or treatment outcome, suggesting that there is a close interrelationship between the two conditions.

scholarly journals Life satisfaction and mental health problems (18 to 35 years)

2015 ◽  
Vol 45 (11) ◽  
pp. 2427-2436 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. M. Fergusson ◽  
G. F. H. McLeod ◽  
L. J. Horwood ◽  
N. R. Swain ◽  
S. Chapple ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Anxiety Disorder ◽  
Major Depression ◽  
Mental Disorder ◽  
Alcohol Dependence ◽  
Substance Dependence ◽  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
Health Problems ◽  
Reciprocal Associations

BackgroundPrevious research has found that mental health is strongly associated with life satisfaction. In this study we examine associations between mental health problems and life satisfaction in a birth cohort studied from 18 to 35 years.MethodData were gathered during the Christchurch Health and Development Study, which is a longitudinal study of a birth cohort of 1265 children, born in Christchurch, New Zealand, in 1977. Assessments of psychiatric disorder (major depression, anxiety disorder, suicidality, alcohol dependence and illicit substance dependence) using DSM diagnostic criteria and life satisfaction were obtained at 18, 21, 25, 30 and 35 years.ResultsSignificant associations (p < 0.01) were found between repeated measures of life satisfaction and the psychiatric disorders major depression, anxiety disorder, suicidality, alcohol dependence and substance dependence. After adjustment for non-observed sources of confounding by fixed effects, statistically significant associations (p < 0.05) remained between life satisfaction and major depression, anxiety disorder, suicidality and substance dependence. Overall, those reporting three or more mental health disorders had mean life satisfaction scores that were nearly 0.60 standard deviations below those without mental health problems. A structural equation model examined the direction of causation between life satisfaction and mental health problems. Statistically significant (p < 0.05) reciprocal associations were found between life satisfaction and mental health problems.ConclusionsAfter adjustment for confounding, robust and reciprocal associations were found between mental health problems and life satisfaction. Overall, this study showed evidence that life satisfaction influences mental disorder, and that mental disorder influences life satisfaction.

Resting frontal EEG asymmetry in adolescents with major depression: Impact of disease state and comorbid anxiety disorder

2018 ◽  
Vol 129 (12) ◽  
pp. 2577-2585 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Feldmann ◽  
Charlotte E. Piechaczek ◽  
Barbara D. Grünewald ◽  
Verena Pehl ◽  
Jürgen Bartling ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Anxiety Disorder ◽  
Major Depression ◽  
Disease State ◽  
Eeg Asymmetry ◽  
Frontal Eeg Asymmetry ◽  
Comorbid Anxiety

Major Depression and Generalised Anxiety Disorder

1996 ◽  
Vol 168 (S30) ◽  
pp. 68-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth S. Kendler
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Anxiety Disorder ◽  
Major Depression ◽  
Environmental Risk ◽  
Genetic Factors ◽  
Environmental Risk Factors ◽  
Generalised Anxiety Disorder ◽  
Increase Risk ◽  
Twin Models ◽  
One Year

In both clinical and epidemiological samples, major depression (MD) and generalised anxiety disorder (GAD) display substantial comorbidity. In a prior analysis of lifetime MD and GAD in female twins, the same genetic factors were shown to influence the liability to MD and to GAD. A follow-up interview in the same twin cohort examined one-year prevalence for MD and GAD (diagnosed using a one-month minimum duration of illness). Bivariate twin models were fitted using the program Mx. High levels of comorbidity were observed between MD and GAD. The best-fitting twin models, when GAD was diagnosed with or without a diagnostic hierarchy, found a genetic correlation of unity between the two disorders. The correlation in environmental risk factors was +0.70 when GAD was diagnosed non-hierarchically, but zero when hierarchical diagnoses were used. Our findings provide further support for the hypothesis that in women, MD and GAD are the result of the same genetic factors. Environmental risk factors that predispose to ‘pure’ GAD episodes may be relatively distinct from those that increase risk for MD.

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