Clinical Markers of Panic and Generalized Anxiety Disorder

University of Milano Bicocca

Status

Completed

Conditions

Panic Disorder

Generalized Anxiety Disorder

Duration of Untreated Illness

Treatments

Diagnostic Test: Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-5

Study type

Observational

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT06071819

GAD-PD-3955

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this observational study is to compare socio-demographic and clinical features in patients affected by Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) and by Panic Disorder (PD). The main questions it aims to answer are:

which socio-demographic/clinical markers are associated to GAD or PD diagnosis?
which factors are associated with a longer duration of untreated illness (DUI) in GAD and in PD? Participants will signed a written informed consent and socio-demographic/clinical variables will be retrospectively collected. Researchers will compare GAD and PD groups in terms of socio-demographic and clinical features, including DUI, to better characterize the two disorders and to investigate factors associated to a longer DUI.

Enrollment

290 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18 to 65 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

age 18-65 years;
ability and willing to give informed consent;
fluency in Italian language;
diagnosis of GAD or PD according to the criteria of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorder, 5th edition.

Exclusion criteria

intellectual disability;
lack of clinical and socio-demographic information;
patients treated for less than three months in the outpatient clinics for the impossibility of a comprehensive collection of clinical variables.