Abstract

BARRIOS DI PASCUALE, Laura B; GUEVARA RIVAS, Harold; GOMEZ CABANA, Joana M  and  DI PASCUALE CASALENA, Stefania. Personality traits and its relation with peptic ulcer disease. Salus [online]. 2011, vol.15, n.1, pp.29-33. ISSN 1316-7138.

Objective: To determine the relationship between personality traits and peptic ulcer disease PUD. Patients and methods: A correlational applied field study was carried out in Carabobo State. A deliberate sampling was chosen consisting of 85 patients diagnosed with any form of PUD, to whom a clinical analysis questionnaire CAQ was applied. Relationship between variables was established using Spearman correlation, Chi square and t student. Results: The most common PUD was acute gastritis, the only one showing a statistically significant association with low energy depression in comparison with subjects with other types of PUD. The sample reflected traits of depression, hypochondria, suicidal depression, low-energy depression, depression-agitation, apathy-withdrawal, paranoia, and schizophrenia. There were no statistically significant gender differences. When comparing the results of each personality trait evaluated by the CAQ in the PUD-patient group with the healthy population, statistically significant differences, p<0.05, were observed between both groups, since the first group obtained much higher scores than the expected in healthy subjects. Conclusion: The studied PUD subjects showed strong depressive personality traits that could influence the emergence and evolution of their medical pathology.

Keywords : Personality traits; peptic ulcer disease; CAQ.

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