Abstract
This analysis aims to identify and characterize symptom trajectories in primary care patients with panic disorder with/without agoraphobia (PD/AG) who participated in a primary care team based training involving elements of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT). Growth Mixture Modeling was used to identify different latent classes of change in patients with PD/AG (N = 176) who underwent treatment including CBT elements. We identified three patient classes with distinct similar trajectories. Class 1 (n = 58, mean age: 46.2 years +/- 13.4 years, 81% women) consisted of patients with an initially high symptom burden, but symptoms declined constantly over the intervention period. Symptoms of patients in class 2 (n = 89, mean age: 44.2 years +/- 14.5 years, 67.4% women) declined rapidly at the beginning, then patients went into a plateau-phase. The third class (n = 29, mean age: 47.0 years +/- 12.4 years, 65.5% women) was characterized by an unstable course and had the worse outcome. Our findings show that only a minority did not respond to the treatment. To identify this minority and refer to a specialist would help patients to get intensive care in time.
Dokumententyp: | Zeitschriftenartikel |
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Fakultät: | Medizin |
Themengebiete: | 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften > 610 Medizin und Gesundheit |
URN: | urn:nbn:de:bvb:19-epub-79963-2 |
ISSN: | 2045-2322 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Dokumenten ID: | 79963 |
Datum der Veröffentlichung auf Open Access LMU: | 15. Dez. 2021, 14:51 |
Letzte Änderungen: | 28. Jan. 2022, 14:42 |