Differences in the personality profile of fibromyalgia patients and their relatives with and without fibromyalgia

Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology

Richard P Ebstein¹  Hagit Cohen¹  Yael Glazer¹  Lily Neumann¹  Dan Buskila¹ 

关键词: Fibromyalgia;    familial aggregation;    personality traits;   

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学科分类：医学（综合）

来源: Pacini Editore SpA

【 摘 要 】

OBJECTIVES: To investigate whether Fibromyalgia (FM) patients differ from their first-degree relatives with and without FM regarding the four personality traits, based on Cloninger`s TPQ questionnaire (1). METHODS: The study population was obtained from a genetic study from 2003-2007 and included 129 female FM patients, 27 female relatives with undiagnosed FM and 30 female relatives without FM. All participants completed a socio-demographic questionnaire and the Tridimensional Personality Questionnaire (TPQ) (1) that refers to four personality dimensions: `novelty seeking`, `harm avoidance`, `reward dependence` and `persistence`. Non-articular tenderness was evaluated by tender point count and by dolorimetry. RESULTS: FM patients and their relatives with FM had higher scores on `harm avoidance` than relatives without FM (p

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