Differences between individual and societal health state valuations: any link with personality?

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The concept of "adaptation" has been proposed to account for differences between individual and societal valuations of specific health states in patients with chronic diseases. Little is known about psychological indices of adaptational capacity, which may predict differences in individual and societal valuations of health states. We investigated whether such differences were partially explained by personality traits in chronic disease patients.

Research design

Analysis of baseline data of randomized controlled trial.

Subjects

Three hundred seventy patients with chronic disease.

Measures

The NEO-five factor inventory measure of personality, EuroQoL-5D (EQ-5D) societal-based, and the EQ visual analogue scale individually-based measures of health valuat

SUBMITTER: Chapman BP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2745237 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature