title: [Psychological view of thyroid cancer and in hyperthyroid Graves' patients - comparative exploration].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The aim of study was the evaluation of association between psychometric factors in patients with thyroid cancer and in Graves' hyperthyroid patients.
  
  
  METHODS
  We examined 50 patients with differentiated thyroid cancer, 42 females (84.75%), 8 males aged from 32 to 64 yr. (x +/- SD: 43 +/- 8.17 yr.) and 50 hyperthyroid patients, 45 (90%) females and 5 (10%) males corresponding aged. We used the following methods: the EAS Temperament Survey (EASD) in addition for adults, EPQ Eysenck Personality Questionnaire, Polish Abbreviated Form of the MMPI (DKO-74) and Beck's Depression Scale. We compared the scores of thyroid cancer patients and hyperthyroid patients.
  
  
  RESULTS
  We have interpreted obtained results in both groups as similarly in: mild sense depression, high emotional control, high social dependence, ambiverssion, mild level of emotional mental balance.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Results of our explorations appears great psychological similarity between differentiated thyroid patients and hyperthyroid patients.
authors.affiliation: Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Karol Marcinkowski University of Medical Science, Poznan. izabelastangierska@wp.pl
authors.forename: Izabela
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Warmuz-Stangierska
authors.forename: Agata
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Czarnywojtek
authors.forename: Katarzyna
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ziemnicka
authors.forename: Maria
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gryczyńska
authors.forename: Ryszard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Stangierski
authors.forename: Jerzy
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Sowiński
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006111:Graves Disease / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011581:Psychological Tests; D013964:Thyroid Neoplasms / Q000523:psychology*