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MMPI profiles in post‐lumbar puncture headache
Author(s) -
Vilming S. T.,
Ellertsen B.,
Troland K.,
Schrader H.,
Monstad I.
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
acta neurologica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.967
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 1600-0404
pISSN - 0001-6314
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0404.1997.tb00093.x
Subject(s) - minnesota multiphasic personality inventory , lumbar , anxiety , lumbar puncture , depression (economics) , medicine , personality , surgery , anesthesia , psychiatry , psychology , cerebrospinal fluid , social psychology , economics , macroeconomics
From the original material of 300 patients, of whom 37.3% had experienced a post‐lumbar puncture headache (PPH), a total of 20 males and 50 females were evaluated with the Minnesota Multiple Personality Inventory (MMPI). The test was administered on average 33 months after the lumbar puncture (range 13–51), at a time when anxiety and depression related to the original investigation for a possible organic neurologic disease were expected to affect the results minimally. In the present material PPH was experienced by 45.7% of the patients, 40% of the males, and 48% of the females. Patients without PPH were used as controls. The selected material was a representative sample of the original material both as to distribution of age, proportion of organic diagnoses, and frequency of PPH. The MMPI disclosed no statistically significant differences between PPH patients and controls regarding personality traits.