Anxiety symptoms in stable chronic schizophrenics

Abstract

Thirty people diagnosed schizophrenic and attending outpatient clinics were assessed for a variety of demographic and clinical variables, and compared with a control group. It was found that the patients showed a higher frequency and severity of anxiety symptoms. The anxiety scores correlated highly with items of depressed mood and coherent delusions; five patients also reported discrete panic attacks. It was concluded that anxiety symptoms form a prominent feature of long-term schizophrenic psychopathology.