MIDAS Project Publication Abstracts
Chelminski, I., Zimmerman, M. Pathological worry
in depressed and anxious patients. Journal of Anxiety Disorders,
in press.
Anxious apprehension is present in all anxiety disorders and concerns
have been raised that worry is not confined to GAD. The aims of
the present project were threefold. First, we reexamined whether
the level of pathological worry is higher in patients with GAD than
other anxiety disorders. Second, we compared worry scores of patients
with "pure" GAD, "pure" MDD and MDD with comorbid
GAD. And third, to examine whether worry is specific to psychopathology
in general rather than anxiety or depression, we included a control
group (psychiatric outpatients without an affective or anxiety disorder).
Twelve hundred outpatients were interviewed and completed the Penn
State Worry Questionnaire upon presentation for treatment. Patients
with "pure" GAD had the highest scores. Depressed patients
were similar to those with anxiety disorders other than GAD, and
the control group showed worrying similar to that in general population
and nonanxious samples.
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