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

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Our 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.

Results

Patients 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 sc

SUBMITTER: Dib JE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8620946 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature