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- Title
Neurotic personality and pseudo-cardiac symptoms in a day hospital patients diagnosed at pretreatment between 2004 and 2014.
- Authors
Sobański, Jerzy A.; Popiołek, Lech; Klasa, Katarzyna; Rutkowski, Krzysztof; Dembińska, Edyta; Mielimąka, Michał; Cyranka, Katarzyna; Müldner-Nieckowski, Łukasz
- Abstract
Aim. Assessment of associations between occurrence of pseudo-cardiac symptoms in patients qualified for psychotherapy, with intensity and picture of their neurotic personality disorder. Material and methods. Case records of 2,450 patients from years 2004–2014 were analysed in terms of associations between symptoms reported by means of symptom checklist and global neurotic symptom scores (OWK), global neurotic personality level (XKON) and elevated scores of 24 scales of KON-2006 personality inventory. Associations expressed by OR coefficients with 95% confidence intervals were estimated with logistic regression analyses. Results. Presence of pseudo-cardiac symptoms seems to be linked to significantly higher neuroticism described both as global neurotic symptom level (OWK) as well as by global neurotic personality desintegration (XKON), and most of 24 scales of KON-2006 inventory. Conlusions. 1. Personality background examined with the use of KON-2006 seems to be an important risk factor of pseudo-cardiac symptoms being part of or accompanying neurotic syndromes. 2. In women especially strong appeared associations of tachycardia and Sense of being in danger, Exaltation, Asthenia and Conviction of own resourcelessness. 3. In men pain in heart area was substantially associated with Sense of being overloaded. Probably pseudo-cardiac symptom cure may be attained by psychotherapeutic treatment aimed at its background – at elimination of neurotic personality dysfunctions.
- Publication
Psychiatria Polska, 2016, Vol 50, Issue 1, p213
- ISSN
0033-2674
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.12740/PP/60818