Social functioning in patients with depressive and anxiety disorders.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Adaptive social functioning is severely impeded in depressive and anxiety disorders, even after remission. However, a comprehensive overview is still lacking.

Method

Using data from the Netherlands Study of Depression and Anxiety (NESDA), behavioural (network size, social activities, social support) and affective (loneliness, affiliation, perceived social disability) indicators of social functioning were analyzed in patients with anxiety (N = 540), depressive (N = 393), comorbid anxiety and depressive disorders ('comorbid', N = 748), remitted participants (N = 621), and healthy control subjects (N = 650).

Results

Analyses revealed an increasing trend of social dysfunction among patient groups, in patients with comorbid anxiety and depressive disorders, showi

SUBMITTER: Saris IMJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5601295 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature