Title
Effect of short-term antidepressant treatment on early maladaptive schemas in patients with major depressive and panic disorder
Reference
Atalay, H., Atalay, F., & Bağğdaççiççek, S. (2011). Effect of short-term antidepressant treatment on early maladaptive schemas in patients with major depressive and panic disorder. International Journal of Psychiatry in Clinical Practice, 15(2), 97-105. doi:10.3109/13651501.2010.549234
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: We aimed to investigate the effect of anti-depressant treatment on early maladaptive schemas (EMSs). METHODS: Eighty patients were self-referred to a psychiatric outpatient clinic and were diagnosed with major depressive disorder (MDD) (n = 40) and panic disorder (PD) (n = 40) according to the criteria of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th edition (DSM-IV-TR). These patients were administered the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), the Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI) and the Young Schema Questionnaire-Short Form (YSQ-SF) before and after a 2-month period of antidepressant treatment and were compared with 40 healthy control subjects. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: Depressive mood states were more likely to activate early maladaptive schemas compared to the anxious mood states, and treating these mood states simply with anti-depressive medications led to significant improvements in the activation of these schemas. We concluded that half of the schemas might be accepted as antidepressant treatment-resistant EMSs, or, in other words, they can be viewed in part as those specific to depressive mood states.
Keywords
Antidepressive Agents; Therapeutic Use; Depression; Drug Therapy; Panic Disorder; Adaptation, Psychological; Human; Treatment Outcomes; Outpatients; Case Control Studies; Adolescence; Adult; Middle Age; Data Analysis Software; T-Tests; Pearson's Correlatio
Country
Turkey
Sample type
Clinical
Study focus
Early maladaptive schemas
Study design
Comparison between clinical group/s and/or healthy adult controls