Bronchial asthma control degree and the temperament structure according to the Eysenck model

Andrzej Witusik; Łukasz Mokros; Piotr Kuna; Tadeusz Pietras

doi:10.5114/ada.2019.83216

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Original paper

Bronchial asthma control degree and the temperament structure according to the Eysenck model

Andrzej Witusik

¹

,

Łukasz Mokros

²

,

Piotr Kuna

³

,

Tadeusz Pietras

²

Department of Psychology, Institute of Pedagogical Sciences, Faculty of Social Science in Piotrkow Trybunalski Branch, Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce, Poland
Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Medical University of Lodz, Barlicki Memorial Clinical Hospital No. 1, Lodz, Poland
Department of Internal Medicine, Asthma and Allergy, Medical University of Lodz, Barlicki Memorial Clinical Hospital No. 1, Lodz, Poland

Adv Dermatol Allergol 2020; XXXVII (4): 559–565

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5114/ada.2019.83216

Online publish date: 2019/03/04

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Introduction
Asthma is a disease of a psychosomatic nature. The control of asthma is still poor in approximately 5% of patients, despite introduction of modern inhalant drugs and psychotherapeutic interventions.

Aim
To evaluate whether the degree of bronchial asthma control is related to the characteristics of temperament according to Eysenck’s concept.

Material and methods
The study was conducted on a group of 111 bronchial asthma patients and 44 healthy subjects. In all of them, the Eysenck temperament questionnaire was administered and the level of asthma control was determined.

Results
Increase in the scale of neuroticism was associated with an 1.83-fold increase in the likelihood of poor asthma control. Increase in the result on the psychoticism scale and lie scale of about one point was associated with a slightly smaller increased risk of poor asthma control (respectively: 1.49-fold and 1.61-fold).

Conclusions
The structure of temperament of a person with poor control of bronchial asthma can be characterized. Patients with poor asthma control have a higher level of neuroticism, psychoticism and propensity to lie, compared with the healthy population and subjects with good or partial bronchial asthma control.

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Bronchial asthma control degree and the temperament structure according to the Eysenck model

Andrzej Witusik 1 , Łukasz Mokros 2 , Piotr Kuna 3 , Tadeusz Pietras 2

disease control, neuroticism, psychoticism, logistic models, personality

Andrzej Witusik

¹

,

Łukasz Mokros

²

,

Piotr Kuna

³

,

Tadeusz Pietras

²