title: [Psychopathology and personality in patients with vasovagal syncope].
abstract: Syncope is characterized by a sudden and brief Loss of the normal state of consciousness (fainting), caused by multiple factors (biological, psychological and social), which consequences can be Lethal if it is not timely diagnosed and treated. These episodes affect the total sphere of the subject (on an individual, work, school, social, and family level).
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  Contribute to the study of vasovagal syncope (WS) patients, describing their personality and psychopathological characteristics.
  
  
  METHODS
  Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) was used to evaluate psychopathology in a sample of 30 subjects diagnosed with (WS), attended in the National Institute of Cardiology "lgnacio Chávez", making a descriptive analysis of the complete sample, regarding demographic variables and inventory scores.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The scales with higher scores found within these subjects were hypochondriasis (= 67.43), depression (= 69.83), hysteria (= 67.83) among others.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In general, patients with (WS) show significant levels of anxiety and depression, dissatisfaction, bad mood, pessimism, concern, somatic complaints, difficulty to solve problems adaptively, among others. This study remarks the importance of knowing these characteristics to implement treatments that manage this disease properly and may improve patients quality of life, as well as their physical and mental health.
authors.affiliation: Psicóloga Clinica y Psicoterapeuta del Instituto Nacional de Cardiología Ignacio Chávez del 1989 at 2007. blanca_rios@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Blanca P
authors.initials: BP
authors.lastname: Ríos-Martínez
authors.forename: Gloria
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Huitrón-Cervantes
authors.forename: Manlio F
authors.initials: MF
authors.lastname: Márquez
authors.forename: J Antonio
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: González-Hermosillo
authors.forename: Gabriela A
authors.initials: GA
authors.lastname: Rangel-Rodríguez
authors.forename: Luis Guillermo
authors.initials: LG
authors.lastname: Pedraza-Moctezuma
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000150:complications*; D008875:Middle Aged; D010551:Personality; D010556:Personality Tests; D019462:Syncope, Vasovagal / Q000209:etiology* / Q000523:psychology*; D055815:Young Adult