Improvement in social anxiety following a return-to-work intervention for patients with depression.

Purpose: To retrospectively examine depression and social anxiety improvement in patients on sick leave due to depression who participated in a return-to-work intervention (RTW-I) program.

Methods: Patients visited a psychiatric outpatient clinic simulating workplaces to learn recurrence prevention skills through RTW-Is, including group cognitive behavioral therapy, from April 1, 2013, to September 30, 2017. The Beck Depression Inventory-Second Edition (BDI-II), Social Adaptation Self-Evaluation Scale (SASS), and Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale (LSAS) scores of 112 patients were analyzed before and after the intervention program.

A 1-year follow-up study of coping in patients with panic disorder.

We conducted a longitudinal study of methods used by patients with panic disorder to cope with stress, in order to investigate the characteristics of coping among these patients and to determine whether coping changes as therapy progresses and whether coping affects outcome. The Lazarus Type Stress Coping Inventory was performed on 43 patients with panic disorder and 315 normal subjects. The Stress Coping Inventory was repeated after 1 year therapy in the patients with panic disorder.