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WOS: 000419935100016 PubMed: 27149073 Introduction: Psychological distress of patients with asthma may be reduced when they learned to live with their illness. Asthma can change the psychological and personality characteristics. We aim to investigate the psychological and personality characteristics of patients with asthma using MMPI (Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory). Methods: Thirty-three adult patients with asthma (23 female and 10 male) and 20 healthy controls (14 females and 6 males) were enrolled in this study. Psychometric evaluation was made with the Turkish version of the MMPI. The patients were separated into two groups according to the duration of symptoms (recent-onset asthma= 10 years). Results: Patients with asthma compared with control group had significantly higher the rate of clinical elevation on depression, hysteria, psychasthenia and social introversion. Patients with recent-onset asthma compared with long-standing asthma have significantly higher the rate of clinical elevation on depression, hysteria, psychopathic deviate, psychasthenia and social introversion. MMPI mean t score in patients with recent-onset asthma was higher than patients with long-standing asthma. MMPI mean t score in patients with asthma was negatively associated with the symptom duration in multivariate model. Conclusions: Patients with asthma have relatively more inactivity, anergia, guilt, pessimism, nonspecific physical complaints, irrational fears and introvert. Patients with long-standing asthma have less psychological distress, suggesting that learned to cope with his illness.

Purpose: It has been known that psychological factors have an important effect on the decision to undergo aesthetic surgery. In this study, we aimed to test the hypothesis that the personality traits of people admitted for aesthetic surgery differ from those of people who have never planned to undergo aesthetic surgery in their lives. Material and Methods: Forty-seven patients who were referred to the outpatient clinic of the Faculty of Medicine, Department of Plastic, Reconstructive, and Aesthetic Surgery, Kirikkale University to undergo aesthetic surgery were enrolled in the study. Forty-three subjects who neither underwent nor planned to undergo aesthetic surgery at any time in their lives were included in the study as a control group. Psychometric evaluation of the patients and the control group was conducted using the Turkish version of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI). Results: Taking 65 as a cut-off point, the ratio of patients who scored ≥65 on the hysteria subscale of the MMPI was found to be significantly higher in the sugery group than in the control group and the ratio on social introversion subscale was also higher in the patient group than in the control group, very closely approaching significance. Conclusion: It should be kept in mind that people who have personality traits that can be partially improved with psyachiatric treatment, such as social introverted, lonely, timid, shy, and hysterical and feel the need for validation by others, may be more often admitted for aesthetic surgery., Amaç: Estetik cerrahi yaptırma kararını etkileyen önemli faktörlerden birinin kişilerin psikolojik durumları olduğu uzun süredir bilinmektedir. Bu çalışmada estetik cerrahi için başvuran hastaların kişilik özelliklerinin estetik cerrahi yaptırmamış ve yaptırmayı planlamayan hastalardan farklı olduğu hipotezini sınamayı amaçladık. Gereç ve Yöntem: Kırıkkale Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi Plastik, Rekonstrüktif ve Estetik Cerrahi Polikliniğine estetik cerrahi yaptırmak nedeni ile başvuran toplam 47 hasta ve estetik cerrahi yaptırmamış ve yaptırmayı planlamayan 43 kişi kontrol grubu olarak alındı. Katılımcıların psikometrik değerlendirmesi evet yada hayır şeklinde cevaplanan 566 cümleden oluşan Minnesota Çok yönlü Kişilik Envanterinin (MMPI) Türkçe versiyonu ile yapılmıştır. Bulgular: Kesme değeri olarak 65 alındığında histeri alt testinde 65 ve üzeri puan alan hastaların oranının kontrol grubuyla karşılaştırıldığında anlamlı derecede yüksek ve sosyal içe dönüklük alt testinde ise bu oranın anlamlığa yakın derecede hasta grubunda daha yüksek olduğu saptandı Sonuçlar: Özellikle sosyal içe dönük, yalnız, ürkek, çekingen ve histerik yani başkaları tarafından onaylanma gereksinimi hisseden ve belki de psikiyatrik tedavi ile kısmen de olsa düzelebilecek kişilik özelliklerine sahip bireylerin daha fazla estetik cerrahi arayışında bulundukları göz önünde tutulmalıdır.

WOS: 000353959800004 PubMed: 25220107 IntroductionRestless legs syndrome (RLS) is associated with psychiatric disorders. We aim to investigate the personality traits of RLS patients using the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory. MethodsTwenty adult patients with RLS (14 females and 6 males) and 20 healthy controls (14 females and 6 males) who were referred to university neurology were enrolled in the present study. Diagnosis of RLS was established using International Restless Legs Syndrome Study Group. Psychometric evaluation was made with the Turkish version of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory. ResultsRLS patients have significantly higher absolute and clinical elevation scores on hypochondriasis and hysteria, and clinical elevation scores on psychasthenia, compared with the controls. Absolute scores on depression were higher at the border in RLS patients compared with the controls. DiscussionRLS patients have hypochondriac, hysterical, depressive, and anxious personality traits.