title: Neurotic personality and pseudo-cardiac symptoms in a day hospital patients diagnosed at pretreatment between 2004 and 2014.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Assessment of associations between occurrence of pseudocardiac symptoms in patients qualified for psychotherapy, with intensity and picture of their neurotic personality disorder.
  
  
  METHODS
  Case records of 2450 patients from years 2004-2014 were analysed in terms of associations between symptoms reported by means of symptom checklist and global neurotic symptom scores (OWK), global neurotic personality level (XKON) and elevated scores of 24 scales of KON-2006 personality inventory. Associations expressed by OR coefficients with 95% confidence intervals were estimated with logistic regression analyses.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Presence of pseudocardiac symptoms seems to be linked to significantly higher neuroticism described both as global neurotic symptom level (OWK) as well as by global neurotic personality desintegration (XKON), and most of 24 scales of KON-2006 inventory.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  1. Personality background examined with the use of KON-2006 seems to be an important risk factors of pseudo-cardiac symptoms being part of or accompanying neurotic syndromes. 2. In women especially strong appeared associations of tachycardia and Sense of being in danger, Exaltation, Asthenia and Conviction of own resourselessness. 3. In men pain in heart area was substantially associated with Sense of being overloaded. Probably pseudocardiac symptom cure may be attained by psychotherapeutic treatment aimed at its background - at elimination of neurotic personality dysfunctions.
authors.affiliation: Katedra Psychoterapii UJ CM.
authors.forename: Jerzy A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Sobański
authors.affiliation: Katedra Psychoterapii UJ CM.
authors.forename: Lech
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Popiołek
authors.affiliation: Zakład Psychoterapii Szpitala Uniwersyteckiego w Krakowie.
authors.forename: Katarzyna
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Klasa
authors.affiliation: Katedra Psychoterapii UJ CM.
authors.forename: Krzysztof
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Rutkowski
authors.affiliation: Katedra Psychoterapii UJ CM.
authors.forename: Edyta
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Dembińska
authors.affiliation: Katedra Psychoterapii UJ CM.
authors.forename: Michał
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mielimąka
authors.affiliation: Katedra Psychoterapii UJ CM.
authors.forename: Katarzyna
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Cyranka
authors.affiliation: Katedra Psychoterapii UJ CM.
authors.forename: Łukasz
authors.initials: Ł
authors.lastname: Müldner-Nieckowski
mesh_terms: D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009497:Neurotic Disorders / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy*; D011044:Poland / Q000453:epidemiology; D064889:Psychotherapy, Psychodynamic / Q000379:methods
keywords: neuroticism; personality; pseudo-cardiac symptoms