Cut from the same cloth? investigating the personality of interventional and surgical cardiovascular specialists.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Considering that the treatment of patients with complex vascular disease requires multidisciplinary collaboration in teams and personality traits can impact team dynamics, we investigated the personality structures of vascular surgeons, cardiothoracic surgeons, and interventional radiologists using the validated big five model.

Methods

A cross-sectional study utilizing the validated Big Five Inventory-2 (BFI-2) questionnaire. Corrected one-way analyses of variance were performed to compare personality domain scores between the specialist groups. Questionnaires were distributed among all Dutch general surgery departments and through the Dutch Societies for Interventional Radiology (NVIR) and Cardiothoracic Surgery (NVT). A total of 224 specialists participated: 78 int

SUBMITTER: Sier VQ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12549727 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature