title: Evaluating panic-specific factors in the relationship between suicide and panic disorder.
abstract: Work during the past decade has suggested an association between panic disorder and suicide (i.e., suicidal ideation and suicide attempts) that cannot simply be accounted for by co-occurring depression symptoms. To clarify the linkage between panic disorder and suicide, the association between panic-specific clinical and cognitive variables and suicide indicators were evaluated in patients with panic disorder (N=146). Analyses predicting the presence of suicidal ideation (positive, negative) after covarying the effects of a current mood disorder diagnosis and depression symptoms indicated a number of significant predictors including: (1) overall anxiety symptoms; (2) level of anticipatory anxiety; (3) avoidance of bodily sensations; (4) attentional vigilance toward bodily perturbations; and (5) phrenophobia (i.e., fear of cognitive incapacitation). Anxiety-specific variables did not account for unique variance in predicting prior history of suicide attempts.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, The Ohio State University, Columbus 43210-1222, USA. schmidt.283@osu.edu
authors.forename: N B
authors.initials: NB
authors.lastname: Schmidt
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Woolaway-Bickel
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bates
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003072:Cognition Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology; D015897:Comorbidity; D003863:Depression / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D005544:Forecasting; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D016584:Panic Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology*; D011581:Psychological Tests; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D013406:Suicide, Attempted / Q000523:psychology*