title: Efficacy of media in motivating patients with panic disorder to visit specialists.
abstract: In 97 patients who visited Akasaka Clinic, their chief complaints, the form of media which motivated patients to visit the clinic, and their DSM-IV diagnoses were examined. The media which most frequently motivated the patients were books (35%), TV programs (23%), and the Internet (16%). While many of patients complained of panic attacks, 74.2% were diagnosed as having anxiety disorder, 12% had somatoform disorder and 8% did not have any mental illness. The rate of panic disorder tended to be higher in patients motivated by TV programs (70%) and significantly lower in those motivated by the reading of books (48%). These results suggest that enlightenment of panic disorder using the media, especially that by TV programs, effectively motivates patients with panic disorder.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neuropsychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Panic Disorder Research Center (Akasaka Clinic), Japan. tadafumi-tky@umin.ac.jp
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kato
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Yamanaka
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kaiya
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003156:Community Mental Health Services; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D007564:Japan / Q000453:epidemiology; D008297:Male; D008402:Mass Media; D008403:Mass Screening; D008875:Middle Aged; D016584:Panic Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology