Harmony seeking and the risk of prostate cancer: a prebioptic study.
OBJECTIVE
This semiprospective case-control study was performed to investigate the relationship between harmony-seeking personality and the occurrence of prostate cancer.


METHODS
Out of 217 consecutive participants admitted to hospital for biopsy, 86 and 81 were classified into the case and control groups, respectively, based on their initial diagnosis and eligibility criteria. The participants answered several questionnaires after admission. The logistic regression model was used for multivariate analyses to assess the association.


RESULTS
"Harmony-seeking personality" was selected as the only psychological variable significantly contributing to the model, while "family history of prostate cancer" as the only somatic variable. "Harmony-seeking" maintained a significant contribution to the model, also including "family history" and even to the model adjusted by "patient prediction of cancer diagnosis" and "prostate-specific antigen" (PSA), probably related to the consequences of the disease.


CONCLUSIONS
The harmony-seeking personality could differentiate between groups of men with and without prostate cancer.
Kumano
Hiroaki
H
Department of Psychosomatic Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
Haseme
Etsuko
E
Fujimoto
Hiroyuki
H
Matsuoka
Naoki
N
Yoshiuchi
Kazuhiro
K
Uchitomi
Yosuke
Y
Akechi
Tatsuo
T
Nakano
Tomohito
T
Kobayashi
Minatsu
M
Agari
Ichiro
I
Kuboki
Tomifusa
T
D000339:Affect; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001294:Attitude to Health; D001706:Biopsy; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D006801:Humans; D016015:Logistic Models; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010551:Personality; D011300:Preoperative Care; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires