J Korean Neurol Assoc > Volume 21(6); 2003 > Article

Journal of the Korean Neurological Association 2003;21(6): 600-605.

긴장형두통 환자의 심리적 특성: MMPI를 중심으로

이종문 , 장상현 유성욱 최윤경 고성범 박민규 박건우 이대희

고려대학교 의과대학 신경과학교실, 정신과학교실

"he Psychological Characteristics of the Patients with Tension-Type Headache: Using MMPI"

Jong-Mun Lee

Department of Neurology and Psychiatry*, Korea University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Abstract

Background: The investigations of personality traits have been the issue of many studies on patients with tension-type headache. However, there was few comparison study of personality traits between the patients with episodic tension-type headache (ETTH) and chronic tension-type headache (CTTH) using Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI).
Methods: The study was consecutively made of the personality profiles of two groups with ETTH (137 patients) and CTTH (115 patients) in accordance with the International Headache Society (HIS) criteria, employing the MMPI.
Results: The two groups could be classified into three clusters by a multivariate cluster analysis, which are relatively normal profile (cluster I), somatic profile (cluster II, elevated Hs-D-Hy scales), and psychosomatic profile (cluster III, elevated Pa-Pt-Sc-Si and Hs-D-Hy scales). The proportion of the patients with CTTH in the psychosomatic profile group was stastically more significant (59.6%) than that of the patients with ETTH (40.4%) by a chi-square test.
Conclusions: This study shows that the psychosomatic profile might be more common in the CTTH patients than in the ETTH patients.Key Words: Tension-type headache, MMPI.