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Does coping predict CO2-induced panic in patients with panic disorder?

Norman B Schmidt1, A Meade Eggleston, John H Trakowski

  • 1Department of Psychology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306, USA. schmidt@psy.fsu.edu

Behaviour Research and Therapy
|August 10, 2005
PubMed
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Area of Science:

  • Psychology
  • Psychiatry
  • Neuroscience

Background:

  • Patients with panic disorder (PD) exhibit maladaptive coping strategies.
  • The precise role of coping mechanisms in the development of panic attacks remains unclear.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate general and panic-specific coping styles as predictors of fear responses during CO2 inhalation.
  • To differentiate the impact of various coping strategies on panic pathogenesis.

Main Methods:

  • Assessed subjective and physiological fear responses, including panic attacks, in 45 patients with PD and 45 healthy controls.
  • Utilized coping measures as primary predictors in statistical analyses.
  • Administered CO2 inhalation challenge to elicit panic symptoms.

Main Results:

  • Patients with PD reported higher levels of emotion-focused coping compared to controls.
  • Emotion-focused coping was associated with increased subjective fear reactivity.
  • Only panic-specific coping significantly predicted the occurrence of panic attacks during the CO2 challenge.

Conclusions:

  • Panic-specific coping, rather than general emotion-focused coping, is a key predictor of panic attacks in response to acute stressors.
  • Findings suggest that interventions targeting panic-specific coping may be crucial for managing panic disorder.

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