Relationship of Mental Status,Personality Characteristics with TCM Syndromes of Spontaneous Abortion / 广州中医药大学学报

ABSTRACT

Objective To investigate the relationship of mental status,personality characterstics and TCM syndromes of spontaneous abortion(SA).Methods Symptom Checklist 90,Measure of Mental Health,Eysenck Personality Questionnaire and Diagnostic Questionnaire of TCM syndromes were adopted.Multifactorial analysis was fitted by non-conditional logistic regression model.Results In patients with SA,a positive correlation of somatization factors and kidney dificiency,spleen deficiency,blood heat and liver-qi stagnation.A positive correlation was also found between hostility factors and kidney deficiency,obsessive-compulsive factors and liver-qi stagnation.Patients with melancholic temperament tended to manifest as the syndromes of kidney deficiency,spleen deficiency and liver-qi stagnation,and choleric temperament tended to manifest as blood heat and liver-qi stagnation.Conclusion The syndromes of kidney deficiency,spleen deficiency,blood heat and liver-qi stagnation at least partially reflect the psychosomatic reaction or psychosomatic disorder induced by mental factors.TCM syndromes has a relationship with mental status and personality characteristics.The nature of their relationship needs to be studied further.