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Personality of outpatients with malignant tumors: a cross-sectional study

BACKGROUND: There have been scarce large-scale studies investigating the personality of patients with malignant tumors. The purpose of this study is to determine the characteristic personality in malignant tumors outpatients. METHODS: Three thousand and three among 5013 consecutive outpatients who c...

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Autores principales: Wang, Zhuo, Sakakibara, Toshihiko, Kasai, Yuichi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3502199/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22967001
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-10-187
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author Wang, Zhuo
Sakakibara, Toshihiko
Kasai, Yuichi
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description BACKGROUND: There have been scarce large-scale studies investigating the personality of patients with malignant tumors. The purpose of this study is to determine the characteristic personality in malignant tumors outpatients. METHODS: Three thousand and three among 5013 consecutive outpatients who consented to answer the Japanese Maudsley Personality Inventory questionnaires were divided into two groups. 603 outpatients diagnosed with malignant tumors (M group) and the other 2400 outpatients (non-M group) were enrolled in this study. We determined three scores such as introversion/extroversion (E-score), neuroticism (N-score), and lie detection (L-score). All data were used to compare the two groups. RESULTS: Average E-score was slightly higher, and average N-score was slightly lower in M group than that in non-M group, and no significant differences between the two groups. However, the average L-score in M group was significant higher than that in non-M group (p < 0.01). CONCLUSION: Outpatients with malignant tumors showed a significantly higher L-score on MPI when compared with patients with non-malignant tumors. These results stress the importance of taking the mentality of patients with cancer into consideration when conducting treatment and care.
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spelling pubmed-35021992012-11-21 Personality of outpatients with malignant tumors: a cross-sectional study Wang, Zhuo Sakakibara, Toshihiko Kasai, Yuichi World J Surg Oncol Research BACKGROUND: There have been scarce large-scale studies investigating the personality of patients with malignant tumors. The purpose of this study is to determine the characteristic personality in malignant tumors outpatients. METHODS: Three thousand and three among 5013 consecutive outpatients who consented to answer the Japanese Maudsley Personality Inventory questionnaires were divided into two groups. 603 outpatients diagnosed with malignant tumors (M group) and the other 2400 outpatients (non-M group) were enrolled in this study. We determined three scores such as introversion/extroversion (E-score), neuroticism (N-score), and lie detection (L-score). All data were used to compare the two groups. RESULTS: Average E-score was slightly higher, and average N-score was slightly lower in M group than that in non-M group, and no significant differences between the two groups. However, the average L-score in M group was significant higher than that in non-M group (p < 0.01). CONCLUSION: Outpatients with malignant tumors showed a significantly higher L-score on MPI when compared with patients with non-malignant tumors. These results stress the importance of taking the mentality of patients with cancer into consideration when conducting treatment and care. BioMed Central 2012-09-11 /pmc/articles/PMC3502199/ /pubmed/22967001 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-10-187 Text en Copyright ©2012 Wang et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Wang, Zhuo
Sakakibara, Toshihiko
Kasai, Yuichi
Personality of outpatients with malignant tumors: a cross-sectional study
title Personality of outpatients with malignant tumors: a cross-sectional study
title_full Personality of outpatients with malignant tumors: a cross-sectional study
title_fullStr Personality of outpatients with malignant tumors: a cross-sectional study
title_full_unstemmed Personality of outpatients with malignant tumors: a cross-sectional study
title_short Personality of outpatients with malignant tumors: a cross-sectional study
title_sort personality of outpatients with malignant tumors: a cross-sectional study
topic Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3502199/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22967001
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-10-187
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