Personality factors associated with anticipatory nausea/vomiting in patients receiving cancer chemotherapy.
One hundred cancer chemotherapy patients rated the severity of pre- and posttreatment nausea and emesis and completed the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory. In addition, scores on the Millon Behavioral Health Inventory were obtained for 59 of those patients. Thirty-three percent of the patients reported having experienced anticipatory nausea and 11% reported having experienced anticipatory vomiting. Patients who experienced anticipatory nausea had more posttreatment nausea and vomiting, were more depressed, and were characteristically more anxious than other patients. A personality profile including the future despair, social alienation, and inhibited style (from the Millon Behavioral Health Inventory) identified patients with anticipatory nausea.
D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000970:Antineoplastic Agents / Q000009:adverse effects*; D001007:Anxiety / Q000523:psychology; D003863:Depression / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007439:Introversion, Psychological; D008297:Male; D009325:Nausea / Q000139:chemically induced* / Q000523:psychology; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy*; D010551:Personality; D012718:Set, Psychology; D012803:Sick Role; D012931:Social Environment; D014839:Vomiting / Q000139:chemically induced* / Q000523:psychology
D000970:Antineoplastic Agents