Affective temperaments of Lebanese patients with schizophrenia: comparison by gender and severity of psychosis

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Joseph E. Dib¹  Ilige Nehme²  Sahar Obeid³  Chadia Haddad⁴  Souheil Hallit⁵  Jocelyne Azar⁶ 

[1] Division of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK;Faculty of Science, Lebanese University, Fanar, Lebanon;INSPECT-LB: Institut National de Santé Publique, Epidemiologie Clinique Et Toxicologie, Beirut, Lebanon;Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Holy Spirit University of Kaslik (USEK), Jounieh, Lebanon;Institute of Epidemiology and Tropical Neurology, INSERM, University of Limoges, CH Esquirol, UMR 1094, Tropical Neuroepidemiology, GEIST, 87000, Limoges, France;Research Department, Psychiatric Hospital of the Cross, Jal Eddib, Lebanon;INSPECT-LB: Institut National de Santé Publique, Epidemiologie Clinique Et Toxicologie, Beirut, Lebanon;Research Department, Psychiatric Hospital of the Cross, Jal Eddib, Lebanon;Faculty of Medicine and Medical Sciences, Holy Spirit University of Kaslik (USEK), Jounieh, Lebanon;Research Department, Psychiatric Hospital of the Cross, Jal Eddib, Lebanon;Faculty of Medicine, Lebanese American University, Byblos, Lebanon;

关键词: Schizophrenia;    TEMPS-A;    PANSS;    Affective temperaments;    Lebanese;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s13104-021-05854-8

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

ObjectivesOur aim in this study was to identify affective temperament differences utilizing the TEMPS-A in a large sample size of Lebanese patients with schizophrenia and compare them to healthy controls. Gender differences, demographic factors and degree of psychotic symptoms were also considered. A cross‐sectional study was conducted at the Psychiatric Hospital of the Cross (PHC) from March to June 2019. Two-hundred fifty chronic patients with schizophrenia were compared to 250 healthy controls randomly chosen from the general population.ResultsPatients with schizophrenia significantly had higher mean depressive, cyclothymic, irritable and anxious temperament scores compared to healthy controls. Healthy controls significantly had a higher mean hyperthymic temperament score compared to patients with schizophrenia. In the group of patients with schizophrenia exclusively, females scored higher in terms of depressive, cyclothymic and anxious temperaments compared to males. In the group of healthy controls, males scored higher in terms of hyperthymic and irritable temperaments compared to females, whereas a higher mean depressive and anxious temperament scores were significantly found in females compared to males. In addition, higher PANSS total scores, as well as higher positive, negative and general subscales scores were significantly associated with higher depressive, cyclothymic, irritable and anxious temperament scores.

【 授权许可】

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