Quality of life in the anxiety disorders: A meta-analytic review
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Selection of studies
We identified appropriate studies by conducting searches in both PsychINFO and PubMed in June, 2006. We conducted 6 separate searches in each database and limited the search criteria to words that appeared in the title of the study. The searches were: 1) “social phobia” and “quality of life,” 2) “panic disorder” and “quality of life,” 3) “post-traumatic” and “quality of life”; “PTSD” and “quality of life,” 4) “generalized anxiety” and “quality of life,” 5) “obsessive compulsive” and “quality of
Preliminary analyses
Across patient samples, 61.1% were female, with a mean age of 39.70 (SD = 9.75) years; across control samples, 58.8% were female, with a mean age of 40.32 (SD = 8.80) years. Neither age nor sex differed between patient and control samples, (p's > 05). QOL effect size estimates did not correlate significantly with the mean age of the patient sample (r = 0.29, p = .148) or the percentage of female participants in the patient sample (r = − 0.27, p = .145).
Effect size estimates are depicted in Table 2. Across all
Discussion
There has been growing research interest on the impact of anxiety disorders on QOL. Epidemiological surveys, clinical studies, and qualitative literature reviews suggest that QOL impairments reported by anxiety disorder patients are substantial and may be comparable to QOL impairments observed in other psychiatric conditions (, Mendlowicz and Stein, 2000). The present meta-analytic investigation examined the impact of anxiety disorders on QOL by comparing anxiety disorder patients with
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