title: Personality profile in patients with polycystic ovary syndrome.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To investigate the personality traits of patients with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS).
  
  
  METHODS
  Forty-nine patients with PCOS and 34 healthy controls were enrolled in the study. Psychometric evaluation was made with the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory. Additionally, Short Form-36 (SF-36) and Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) were also performed.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Polycystic ovary syndrome patients had significantly higher absolute and clinical elevation scores on depression, hysteria, psychasthenia and hypomania compared with the controls. Patients with PCOS had lower SF-36 physical and mental health summary scores and higher HADS anxiety and depression subscale scores.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Polycystic ovary syndrome patients seem to have depressive, hysterical, psychasthenic and hypomanic personality traits.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine .
authors.forename: Zeynep
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Ozcan Dag
authors.forename: Omer
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Oguzturk
authors.forename: Yuksel
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Isik
authors.forename: Yakup
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Turkel
authors.forename: Emel
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Bulcun
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003863:Depression / Q000503:physiopathology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010551:Personality / Q000502:physiology*; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000503:physiopathology*; D011085:Polycystic Ovary Syndrome / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000523:psychology
keywords: Minnesota multiphasic personality inventory; personality traits; polycystic ovary syndrome; psychiatric disorders; quality of life