Effects of personality features on psychological status of patients with lung cancer in perioperative period / 中华行为医学与脑科学杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To discuss the effects of personality features on psychological status of patients with lung cancer in perioperative period.Methods Choosing 97 patients from the thoracic department of the second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University as the study objects.The general information,psychological status and personality features were investigated by using the self-made General Information Questionnaire,Eysenck Personality Questionnaire( EPQ),Self-rating Depression Scale (SDS),Self-rating Anxiety Scale(SAS) and Self-rating Symptom Scale(SCL-90).Results The scores of seven factors including total scores( 153.28±41.98),somatization ( 1.78 ± 0.42 ),compulsion ( 1.96 ± 0.52 ),depression ( 1.77 ± 0.67 ),anxiety ( 1.82 ± 0.56 ),hostility ( 1.68 ± 0.87 ),panic ( 1.44 ± 0.75 ) and psychosis ( 1.56 ± 0.51 ) in SCL-90 were higher than domestic norm (P ＜ 0.05 ).The score of EPQ-P(Psychoticism) ( 10.96 ± 2.65 ) were higher than the domestic norm ( 5.84 ± 3.27 )(P＜0.001 ),and EPQ-N(neuroticism) and EPQ-P were positively correlated with the scores of seven factors in SCL-90.Conclusion The mental status of patients with lung cancer in perioperative period is poor.Solitude and uncaring others are the features of personality,which is correlated with psychological status,and EPQ-E (introvertion-extroversion) and EPQ-N can predict the happening of negative psychology.