From chest pain to the feeling of anguish in affective and anxious patients

Abstract

Objective. Investigate differences between patients with and without anguish in terms of symptomatology and comorbidities and to find out whether patients with depression and with anxiety have more anguish than patients who do not have depression and anxiety. Method. A statistical analysis was carried out, which included a descriptive analysis that followed the verification of the distributions of the variables of the questionnaires in the groups, and an inferential analysis in which it was the dimension of some questionnaires was reduced and latent variables were constructed, possibly more discriminative in relation to the groups, and the variables with the greatest predictive power for anguish were identified. Results. The variables that most showed relationships with anguish were the following: Gender, Reduced Hamilton Score, BSI Somatization, Age and MINI Depression.

DOI:https://doi.org/10.56238/sevened2024.013-004