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http://dx.doi.org/10.14401/KASMED.2019.26.2.104

Analysis of State-Trait Anxiety Inventory for Patients Diagnosed with Insomnia in an Outpatient Department  

Lee, Sang Don (Department of Psychiatry, Konkuk University Medical Center)
Ryu, Seung-Ho (Department of Psychiatry, Konkuk University Medical Center)
Ha, Jee Hyun (Department of Psychiatry, Konkuk University Medical Center)
Jeon, Hong Jun (Department of Psychiatry, Konkuk University Medical Center)
Park, Doo-Heum (Department of Psychiatry, Konkuk University Medical Center)
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Sleep Medicine and Psychophysiology / v.26, no.2, 2019 , pp. 104-110 More about this Journal
Abstract
Objectives: Insomnia patients who visited the psychiatric outpatient of a university department, were divided into those patients with insomnia alone and those with depression or anxiety disorder, along with insomnia. The study analyzed their demographic characteristics and the differences in State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) results among the patient groups. Methods: Patients who visited the psychiatric department in Konkuk University hospital from 1 January 2006 to 31 December 2018. If they were diagnosed with insomnia disorder based on DSM IV-TR and had undergone STAI, their electronic records were retrospectively analyzed. Based on the records, the patients were classified into those with insomnia disorder only, those with insomnia and anxiety disorder, and those with insomnia and depressive disorder. This study analyzed the demographic characteristics and STAI results of each group, and compared the differences among those groups. Results: During the period, 99 of 329 insomnia disorder patients who had performed STAI were diagnosed with depressive concurrent disorder and 61 with concurrent anxiety disorder. There was no difference in demographic characteristics of age and sex ratio among the three patient groups, and all had greater than 70% proportions of patients aged from 50s to 70s (71.8%, 77.1%, and 73.8% respectively). The average scores of STAI-I were 51.85 ± 10.15 for the patients with anxiety disorders and 54.18 ± 10.32 for those with depressive disorders, both of which were higher than the score of the patients with insomnia alone (44.55 ± 8.89). However, the score difference was not statically significant between the anxiety and depression groups. Similarly, in the STAI-II comparison, the averages of patients with anxiety or depressive disorders along with insomnia were 49.98 ± 8.31 and 53.19 ± 10.13 respectively, which were higher than that of the insomnia only group (42.71 ± 8.84), but there was no significant difference between the anxiety and depressive disorder groups. Conclusion: Although there were no differences in demographic data between the patients with insomnia only and those with accompanying depressive or anxiety disorder, the STAI-I and II scores were lower in the insomnia only group. In the future, it is necessary to consider other demographic characteristics including comorbidities and to conduct similar analyses with a larger sample.
Keywords
Anxiety disorder; Depressive disorder; Insomnia; STAI;
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