NULLBackground: Over the past several decades, the relationship between personality traits,
depression, anxiety and stroke has interested to clinicians and researchers.
Objective: Evaluation of personality traits, depression and anxiety among patients with
stroke.
Methods: Thirty patients with stroke recruited from neurology department inpatients unit
in Assiut university hospital. Another 50 subjects matched with respect to age, sex, and
socioeconomic status formed the control group. For each participant, a complete medical
history was obtained. Clinical examination, brain CT or MRI, and psychometric
evaluation was performed for patients. Eysenck Personality Questionnaire, Hamilton
anxiety and Beck Depression Inventory were used in assessment the psychometric state
of patients.
Results: Patients with stroke reported significant higher scores in depression and
anxiety. Psychoticism, lying and crime personality traits were significant higher among
stroke patients compared with controls. Depression, anxiety were significant correlated
with some of the personality traits subscales.
Conclusion: In our study stroke is associated with depression, anxiety and some
abnormal personality traits.