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AIM: To study psychology, personality and behavior characteristics of primary angle-close glaucoma (PACG) and to investigate the relationship between psychological factors and the onset of PACG. METHODS: One hundred patients with PACG and 45 normal subjects underwent questionnaire of SCL-90, EPQ and A style behavior. RESULTS: In SCL-90, the scores of somatization, interpersonal sensitivity, depression, anxiety, hostility, phobic anxiety, paranoid ideation and psychoticism in patients with PACG were higher than those in normal subjects(P < 0.05). In A-style behavior, the score of TH in patients with PACG was higher than chose in normal subjects, but there was no difference between two groups in TH + CH and CH. In EPQ, the score of psychology and nervousness in the group with PACG was higher than that in normal subjects(P < 0.05). CONCLUSION: The psychological factor seems to be obviously associated with the onset of PACG. The patients with PACG were mainly A-style personality, and their psychology and nervousness are connected with the onset of PACG. LA: Chinese
X.-G. Yang. Department of Ophthalmology, Xi'an No.4 Hospital, Xi'an 710004, Shaanxi Province, China. yangxinguang62@hotmail.com
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