title: Respiratory and non-respiratory panic disorder subtypes: clinical and quality of life comparisons.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  to compare the scores of the WHOQOL quality of life domains with the clinical features of patients with respiratory and non-respiratory panic disorders (PD) treated at the UFRJ Panic and Respiration Laboratory.
  
  
  METHODS
  cross sectional study. Thirty-two PD outpatients under treatment were consecutively selected and evaluated by the MINI v.4.4. They were divided into two different groups according to Briggs et al. classification of respiratory and non-respiratory PD subtypes. Twelve (37.5%) patients had the respiratory subtype (SR) and 20 (62.5%) the non-respiratory subtype (SN).
  
  
  RESULTS
  the SN patients presented worse scores in the psychological domain of the WHOQOL. There were no differences between groups in gender, age, level of schooling, occupational status, marital status, smoking and comorbidities. There were no differences in the anxiety questionnaires and PD questionnaire (BAI, STAI-T, STAI-S, PAS) scores and in the age at the beginning of the disorder and the disorder's duration.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  non-respiratory subtype patients presented worse scores in the psychological domain of WHOQOL than the respiratory subtype group, when they had similar anxiety and PD scores.
authors: Phsychiatry, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. valfrido@gmail.com
authors: Valfrido Leão
authors: VL
authors: de-Melo-Neto
authors: Anna Lucia Spear
authors: AL
authors: King
authors: Alexandre Martins
authors: AM
authors: Valença
authors: Rafael Christophe
authors: RC
authors: da Rocha Freire
authors: Antonio E
authors: AE
authors: Nardi
mesh_terms: D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010200:Panic / Q000145:classification*; D011788:Quality of Life; D012120:Respiration Disorders / Q000145:classification* / Q000150:complications / Q000523:psychology*