Resilience linked to personality dimensions, alexithymia and affective symptoms in motor functional neurological disorders.

ABSTRACT: OBJECTIVE:Reduced resilience, a construct associated with maladaptive stress coping and a predisposing vulnerability for Functional Neurological Disorders (FND), has been under-studied compared to other neuropsychiatric factors in FND. This prospective case-control study investigated self-reported resilience in patients with FND compared to controls and examined relationships between resilience and affective symptoms, personality traits, alexithymia, health status and adverse life event burden. METHODS:50 individuals with motor FND and 47 healthy controls participated. A univariate test followed by a logistic regression analysis investigated group-level differences in Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC) scores. For within-group analyses performed separately in patients with FND and

SUBMITTER: Jalilianhasanpour R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5856107 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature