title: Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory prediction of intellectual changes following cardiac surgery.
abstract: One hundred two cardiac surgery patients were tested with the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) preoperatively and 98 of these patientts (two diet, two were untestable) were tested both pre- and postoperatively with the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, Bender-Gestalt, and the Wechsler Memory Scale. A large number of the patients obtained preoperative "neurotic"-type MMPI profiles. Postoperative deficits in intellectual ability were slight for the group as a whole, however, there was marked within-group variance. The MMPI was not found to be useful as a predictor of postoperative intellectual changes.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007360:Intelligence; D008950:MMPI; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011581:Psychological Tests