| Personality traits and medical outcome of cardiac illness. | |
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PMID: 20451216 Owner: NLM Status: In-Process |
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OBJECTIVE: Our goal was to examine the empirical literature on the effect of personality traits on the medical outcome of cardiac illness. METHOD: Pub Med and Psychological Abstracts were searched for the years 1990 to September 2009 using the terms personality, personality traits, personality disorder, health, recovery from illness, cardiac illness and surgical recovery. Articles were then selected that were prospective, had a peer review published measure of personality, a standardized measure of outcome of physical illness and at least one year follow up. RESULTS: Seven articles were identified that met our criteria. All seven had a significant finding that personality traits predicted medical outcomes. Of these seven articles six had similar enough measures of personality to be included in a meta analysis. (All used Type D personality.) Meta analysis found an odds ratio of 3.76 for Type D personality traits predicting poorer medical outcome. This indicated that patients with Type D personality had a 276% increase in the odds of a poor medical outcome compared to patients without Type D personality. CONCLUSIONS: These findings indicate that personality traits are a strong predictor of medical outcome of cardiac disease. |
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James Reich; Alan Schatzberg |
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Type: Journal Article Date: 2010-05-06 |
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Title: Journal of psychiatric research Volume: 44 ISSN: 1879-1379 ISO Abbreviation: J Psychiatr Res Publication Date: 2010 Nov |
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Created Date: 2010-10-25 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 0376331 Medline TA: J Psychiatr Res Country: England |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 1017-20 Citation Subset: IM |
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Copyright © 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. |
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Department of Psychiatry, UCSF Medical School, United States. james.reich@ucsf.edu |
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