AUTHOR=Roncero Carlos , de Miguel Adelia , Fumero Ascensión , Abad Alfonso C. , Martín Rita , Bethencourt Juan Manuel , Grau-López Lara , Rodríguez-Cintas Laia , Daigre Constanza 

TITLE=Anxiety and Depression in Drug-Dependent Patients with Cluster C Personality Disorders

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychiatry

VOLUME=9

YEAR=2018

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychiatry/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2018.00019

DOI=10.3389/fpsyt.2018.00019

ISSN=1664-0640

ABSTRACT=<sec id="ST1"><title>Objective</title><p>Comorbidity between personality disorders (PD) and substance-use disorders (SUD) is one of the most common findings in the psychiatric field. The patients with Cluster C disorders present maladjustment traits often characterized by high levels of anxiety. The main aim of this study was to find evidences about higher anxiety and depression prevalence on Cluster C than others Clusters, analyzing similarities and differences within, with other Cluster A and B PD patients and patients without PD.</p></sec><sec id="ST2"><title>Method</title><p>A total of 822 substance dependent patients (ages18–78; Mean = 38.35, SD = 10.14) completed the structured clinical interview for DSM-IV Axis I and Axis II disorders, Beck Depression Inventory, and State-Trait Anxiety Inventory.</p></sec><sec id="ST3"><title>Results</title><p>Results supported poly-consumption in Cluster C patients, being greater alcohol consumption as well as abuse of both stimulants and depressants. Anxiety and depression did not show just one pattern for all patients with SUD-Cluster C PD. There was a relation between anxiety and depression for all the groups except for the Dependent-PD.</p></sec><sec id="ST4"><title>Conclusion</title><p>Interventions should focus on aspects like depression and anxiety more than on the substance consumed.</p></sec>