Personality Pattern of Patients with Chronic Gastric Ulcer

Piper, D. W.; Greig, Margaret; Thomas, J; Shinners, Jane

doi:10.1016/s0016-5085(19)32120-1

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“…First, this group had higher state measures (depression and anxiety) compared with age-and sex-matched community norms. These findings are consistent with those of Piper et al (1977). Higher state anxiety and depression scores are probably the consequence of having a painful disorder often over an extended period of time.…”

Section: Ulcer Patients and Normative Datasupporting

confidence: 90%

“…1957). Psychological factors which have been implicated in the occurrence of peptic ulcer disease include personality variables (Alexander, 1934;Paulus, 1979;Piper et al 1977), symptom states (e.g. anxiety, depression; Magni et al 1982;Wolcott et al 1981) and stressful life events (Piper el al.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In terms of personality traits, chronic gastric ulcer patients have been reported to have higher introversion and neuroticism scores (males only; Piper et al 1977), and to have more traits of anxiety, depression, 'independence' and 'self sufficiency' than normal controls (Alp et al 1970). Lyketsos et al (1982) found that duodenal ulcer patients had higher trait anxiety and lower dominance scores than general medical patients.…”

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Psychological correlates of gastric and duodenal ulcer disease

1986

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SynopsisPsychological correlates of gastric and duodenal ulcer disease were assessed in a group of somewhat older patients with ulcer disease identified by endoscopy. Associations between both ulcer types and symptom measures (anxiety and depression) seemed only to reflect severity or chronicity of gastrointestinal symptoms or the impending endoscopy procedure. Associations with ‘trait’ psychological indices may be of causal significance. Duodenal ulcer patients had higher ‘introversion’ and ‘psychoticism’ scores (on the EPQ) than controls, while gastric ulcer patients had higher psychoticism scores and ‘trait anxiety’ scores. These findings could not be attributed to confounding variables.When the two ulcer groups were compared, the gastric ulcer group had significantly higher neuroticism, psychoticism and hostility scores which were not attributable to confounding variables. The higher depression scores in gastric ulcer patients, however, simply reflected the greater chronicity of their physical symptoms. The groups did not differ significantly on measures of trait anxiety, tension, introversion or Type A behaviour.

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Psychological correlates of gastric and duodenal ulcer disease

1986

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“…In both studies half the patients had neurotic traits, one‐fifth showed other personality disorders and one‐third were without psychiatric symptoms. Accordingly, several studies using either clinical interview or psychometric test or both in the personality assessment indicate that neuroticism is a predominant disorder in peptic ulcer patients [1–5, 8]. Objection could be made against the general validity of these results that they were found in patients admitted to hospital, i.e.…”

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“…The personality of peptic ulcer patients has been frequently studied since the 1930s without finding evidence for a specific ‘peptic ulcer personality’. Nevertheless, several of these studies suggest that peptic ulceration is especially associated with personality disorders of neuroticism [1–5].…”

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The personality pattern of duodenal ulcer patients in relation to spontaneous ulcer healing and relapse

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Lieth

Matzen

et al. 1989

Journal of Internal Medicine

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One hundred consecutive out-patients with duodenal ulceration from a hospital and a gastroenterological clinic were tested with the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI). This was carried out in order to investigate whether neuroticism or other personality disorders were characteristics of duodenal ulcer patients, and whether the presence of such possible personality disorders might influence the prognosis of the disease. Neuroticism occurred in 53% of the patients, but only in 5% of controls (P less than 0.0001). Overall, personality disorders were present in 69% of the patients compared with 30% of the controls (P less than 0.0001). Neuroticism was connected with a high frequency of relapse (P less than 0.05) whereas failure of spontaneous ulcer healing had no certain relation to personality disorders. Patients with non-neurotic personality disorders had more frequently suffered stressful life events before entrance to the study (P less than 0.05) and, like the neurotic patients, they had lower ego-strength to cope with such events (P less than 0.05). The results indicate that personality assessments make it possible to distinguish between subgroups of duodenal ulcer patients with different course of the disease.

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Treatment of Gastric Ulcer

Lewis¹

1983

Arch Intern Med

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Personality Pattern of Patients with Chronic Gastric Ulcer

Cited by 26 publications

References 8 publications

Psychological correlates of gastric and duodenal ulcer disease

Psychological correlates of gastric and duodenal ulcer disease

The personality pattern of duodenal ulcer patients in relation to spontaneous ulcer healing and relapse

Treatment of Gastric Ulcer

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