title: [Personality traits in patients with migraine: a multi-centre study using the Salamanca screening questionnaire].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Psychiatric comorbidity is frequent in cases of migraine and research has focused more on that related to affective disorders and anxiety than to personality traits.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To study the presence of personality traits in persons with migraine and how they are related with the presence of chronic migraine or medication abuse.
  
  
  METHODS
  Patients attended consecutively in five centres were evaluated. The 22 questions in the Salamanca screening questionnaire were used to explore 11 personality traits classified in three groups. Data were obtained concerning demographic characteristics and the impact of migraine.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The sample used in the study included 164 patients (134 females and 30 males), with a mean age of 36.6 ± 12.5 years (range: 18-78 years). In most patients, the impact of migraine was high. The personality traits that appeared most frequently were: anxious (53.7%), anankastic (44.5%), histrionic (40.9%) and dependent (32.9%). The risk of chronic migraine was higher in patients with the anankastic trait (relative risk = 2.06; confidence interval at 95% = 1.07-3.94; p = 0.027).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Some of the personality traits that can be detected with the Salamanca questionnaire are very common in patients with migraine. In our series, the anankastic trait is related with the presence of chronic migraine.
authors.affiliation: Hospital Clinico Universitario de Valladolid, 47005 Valladolid, Espana.
authors.forename: Irene
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Munoz
authors.forename: M Elena
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Toribio-Díaz
authors.forename: Francisco J
authors.initials: FJ
authors.lastname: Carod-Artal
authors.forename: M Luz
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Peñas-Martínez
authors.forename: Lara
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Ruiz
authors.forename: Elena
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Domínguez
authors.forename: M Isabel
authors.initials: MI
authors.lastname: Pedraza
authors.forename: Vicente
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Molina
authors.forename: Angel L
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Guerrero-Peral
authors.forename: Fernando
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Uribe
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D015897:Comorbidity; D005260:Female; D051271:Headache Disorders, Secondary / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008881:Migraine Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology*; D010551:Personality; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology; D010555:Personality Inventory; D012307:Risk Factors; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D013030:Spain; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D055815:Young Adult