Do accompanying symptoms in women with migraine allow distinction between two separate patient groups?

Abstract

We studied 46 untreated women with migraine without aura (mean age, 38±11 years) consecutively sent to the Headache and Facial Pain J Headache Pain (2002) 3:27-32 © Springer-Verlag 2002 Do accompanying symptoms in women with migraine allow distinction between two separate patient groups? Abstract We assessed the prevalence of a number of behavioral and somatic symptoms in women with migraine and investigated whether they were related to personality. In 46 women with migraine, record was taken of 26 symptoms, the MMPI and STAI questionnaires were administered and a psychological assessment was carried out with a semistructured interview using SCID, Italian version. Symptom data were processed through a self-organizing map (SOM) system and Kmeans cluster analysis. Since two patient clusters were obtained, data relative to headache characteristics aand the MMPI and STAI scores were assessed separately for each group. Group 2 had a significantly higher prevalence of several symptoms, of depressive disorders and higher MMPI and of STAI scores with respect to group 1, while the headache characteristics were substantially the same. It is concluded that a distinction can be made between two categories of female migraine patients with scarce or abundant accompanying symptoms. This difference does not seem related to the headache characteristics but, rather, to the patients' personality and psychopathologic symptoms.

Personality, psychosocial and oral behavioural risk factors for temporomandibular disorder symptoms in Asian young adults

“…25 Both TMDs and oral behaviours could be influenced by personality traits (a person's characteristic pattern of thoughts, attitudes, feelings and behaviours), which affect the way psychosocial distress is controlled and relieved. [26][27][28][29][30][31] While there are several personality taxonomies, the five-factor model or 'big five' is widely accepted and applied in research. [32][33][34] The five personality dimensions (OCEAN) are openness (the tendency to be curious, creative and imaginative), conscientiousness (the tendency to be well-organised, goal-oriented, reliable and self-disciplined), extraversion (the propensity to be warm, sociable and self-confident), agreeableness (the tendency to be polite, cooperative, empathetic and caring) and neuroticism (the tendency to experience negative emotions including depression, anxiety and stress).…”

“…Findings differed from those of earlier work suggesting that TMDs are connected to neurotic or 'distressed' personalities. [26][27][28] The disparity could be attributed to differences in research settings and race/ ethnicity as well as the rather high scores for neuroticism in the NT group. Significant differences in negative affectivity, anxiety and stress scores were detected among the four TMD groups.…”

“…The limited literature available suggested that TMDs might be related to neurotic or 'distressed' personality profiles. [26][27][28] Conversely, specific oral behaviours were associated with contrasting personality types. [29][30][31] More specifically, individuals with bruxism were reported to exhibit conscientiousness, extraversion, as well as neuroticism.…”

“…Both TMDs and oral behaviours could be influenced by personality traits (a person's characteristic pattern of thoughts, attitudes, feelings and behaviours), which affect the way psychosocial distress is controlled and relieved 26–31 . While there are several personality taxonomies, the five‐factor model or ‘big five’ is widely accepted and applied in research 32–34 .…”

“…The five personality dimensions (OCEAN) are openness (the tendency to be curious, creative and imaginative), conscientiousness (the tendency to be well‐organised, goal‐oriented, reliable and self‐disciplined), extraversion (the propensity to be warm, sociable and self‐confident), agreeableness (the tendency to be polite, cooperative, empathetic and caring) and neuroticism (the tendency to experience negative emotions including depression, anxiety and stress). The limited literature available suggested that TMDs might be related to neurotic or ‘distressed’ personality profiles 26–28 . Conversely, specific oral behaviours were associated with contrasting personality types 29–31 .…”