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Table 5 Comorbid disorders, treatments received and dropouts during the most recent treatment episode for anxiety disordersi, j

From: Treatment adequacy of anxiety disorders among young adults in Finland

 

Pharmacotherapy

Visits with a physician

Guideline concordant pharmacotherapyc

Sessions of psychotherapy / a year

Minimally adequate treatmente

Treatment dropoutf

Anya

≥2 months

Anyb

≥4 times

 

Anyd

≥8 times

  

Variable

Category

 

%

N

%

N

%

N

%

N

%

N

%

N

%

N

%

N

%

N

Comorbid

Yes

 

54.2

26

45.8

22

71.7

33

41.3

19

31.3

15

58.3

28

35.4

17

45.8

22

13.6

6

mood

No

 

46.7

14

39.3

11

64.5

20

29.0

9

19.4

6

57.1

16

32.1

9

35.5

11

6.9

2

disorders

 

p*

0.519

 

0.579

 

0.502

 

0.272

 

0.243

 

0.919

 

0.772

 

0.362

 

0.465g

 

Comorbid

Yes

 

65.2

15

63.6

14

77.3

17

50.0

11

39.1

9

78.3

18

39.1

9

47.8

11

4.8

1

substance use

No

 

45.5

25

35.2

19

65.5

36

30.9

17

21.4

12

49.1

26

32.1

17

39.3

22

13.5

7

disorder

 

p*

0.111

 

0.023

 

0.312

 

0.116

 

0.106

 

0.018

 

0.552

 

0.484

 

0.425g

 

Comorbid

Yes

 

68.4

13

52.6

10

73.7

14

57.9

11

40.0

8

73.7

14

52.6

10

60.0

12

15.8

3

personality

No

 

45.8

27

40.4

23

67.2

39

29.3

17

22.0

13

52.6

30

28.1

16

35.6

21

9.3

5

disorder

 

p*

0.086

 

0.350

 

0.599

 

0.025

 

0.116

 

0.108

 

0.051

 

0.056

 

0.421g

 

Comorbid other

Yes

 

56.3

9

40.0

6

56.3

9

56.3

9

37.5

6

50.0

8

43.8

7

50.0

8

6.3

1

disorderh

No

 

50.0

31

44.3

27

72.1

44

31.2

19

23.8

15

60.0

36

31.7

19

39.7

25

12.3

7

  

p*

0.656

 

0.765

 

0.239g

 

0.063

 

0.343g

 

0.472

 

0.365

 

0.455

 

0.676g

 

More than 1

Yes

 

46.7

7

40.0

6

64.3

9

35.7

5

25.0

4

60.0

9

40.0

6

37.5

6

0.0

0

anxiety

No

 

52.4

33

44.3

27

69.8

44

36.5

23

27.0

17

57.4

35

32.8

20

42.9

27

13.6

8

disorder

 

p*

0.691

 

0.765

 

0.753g

 

0.956

 

1.000g

 

0.854

 

0.598

 

0.698

 

0.340g

 
  1. aAntidepressant or buspirone prescribed
  2. bAt least 1 visit with a physician a year
  3. cAntidepressant or buspirone used for at least 2 months + 4 visits with a physician a year
  4. dAt least 1 session of psychotherapy a year
  5. eAntidepressant or buspirone used for at least 2 months + at least 4 visits with a physician a year or at least 8 sessions of psychotherapy a year or a hospitalization for anxiety disorders lasting for at least 4 days
  6. fA participant discontinued the visits despite having an adequate treatment plan
  7. gFisher’s exact test was used in the analysis
  8. hPsychotic, eating, sleeping, adjustment or impulse control disorder lifetime
  9. iParticipants with a single specific phobia were excluded
  10. jA bivariate analysis
  11. *The p-values indicate a significance of the difference between categories in a distribution of treatments and dropout tested by χ2- or Fisher’s exact test. P-values < 0.05 in boldface