Psychological well-being and residual symptoms in remitted patients with panic disorder and agoraphobia

Factors influencing subjective perceptions of everyday occupations: Comparing day centre attendees with non-attendees

“…Self-mastery has also been emphasized as a factor of importance for health-related aspects (22), empowerment and recovery (24) and a high activity level (35) among people with PD. This prominent role of self-mastery makes it a key factor in achieving positive subjective experiences from participation in everyday occupations.…”

“…An empowering and recovery-oriented approach from staff members is crucial, as selfmastery has been shown to be related to both of these phenomena (24). Moreover, social skills training has been recommended to strengthen people's self-mastery, since it increased with higher levels of social interaction (43) The findings also indicate that younger people should be highlighted as a risk group for low levels of valued occupations.…”

“…Regarding people with PD, self-mastery has been shown to be of importance to healthrelated factors such as sense of coherence (22), hope (23), empowerment and recovery (24), well-being and quality of life (25), and meaning (11).…”

Intervenciones clínicas positivas: ¿Por qué son importantes y cómo funcionan?

“…Fava argued that recovery in treatment should not only be defined in terms of absence of symptomatology but in terms of presence of well-being as well (Fava et al, 1998). Several studies showed that clients who had been treated but relapsed and needed new treatment for depression or anxiety had substantially lower levels of psychological well-being than matched health groups (Rafanelli et al, 2000;Fava et al, 2001). The absence of psychological well-being can thus be considered a risk factor for relapse that a large group of clients experiences in the years following treatment (Labbate & Doyle, 1997;Ramana et al, 1995).…”

Quality of life assessment by WHOQOL-BREF in panic disorder patients during treatment

“…Several authors demonstrate that treatment improves quality of life among PD patients 9,12 . On the other hand, one study observed that PD patients treated with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, even not presenting prominent symptoms of PD nor agoraphobia showed lower self development and worse physical health than controls, demonstrating that reducing symptoms does not mean improvement of the well being and it is necessary more incisive therapeutic modalities 13 . The present study aims to compare quality of life of PD patients under treatment with a healthy subject sample, and also to investigate the association between socio-demographic and clinical factors and quality of life of PD patients.…”