title: Hospital patients who wear tinted spectacles--physical sign of psychoneurosis: a controlled study.
abstract: The wearing of tinted spectacles by patients is often said to be a marker of psychopathology but without supportive evidence. To investigate the validity of this observation the personalities of 20 medical hospital patients who wore tinted spectacles were compared, by means of a self-report inventory, with those of 20 controls who were age, sex, and diagnosis matched. There was a significant increase in the level of psychopathology in the tinted spectacle group, both in terms of an index of global psychological distress; the General Severity Index, and nine primary symptom dimensions measured by the inventory.
authors: Division of Medicine, Selly Oak Hospital, Birmingham.
authors: R J
authors: RJ
authors: Howard
authors: R M
authors: RM
authors: Valori
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D003116:Color; D005139:Eyeglasses; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009497:Neurotic Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D010555:Personality Inventory