Manifest anxiety in bronchial asthma.

Indian J Psychiatry

Reader, Department of psychology, University of Kerala, Kariyavattom P. O., Trivandrum-695581.

Published: October 1989

Using a vernacular adaptation of MAS 50 bronchial asthma patients were compared with 102 normals, 60 hospital general out-patients and 50 neurotics to determine the level of anxiety in asthma. The manifest anxiety scores of the bronchial asthma patients were found to be significantly high showing that their level of anxiety was abnormally higher in comparison with that of the normals and the hospital general out-patients. The bronchial asthmatics and the neurotics did not differ in anxiety. The implications of these findings were discussed.

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