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Investigating The Relationship Between Personality Traits and Iron Overload in Transfusion-Dependent Thalassemia Patients
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Maram Reapour   1, Rhaim Bagherzadeh ledari2 , Rasoul Ghorkhanechi3 , Saeed Ahmad abadi4 , Mohammad Naderisorki5 |
1- Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Research center, Addiction Institute, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran , mr.mns.mr@gmail.com
2- Department of Psychiatry,School of Medicine, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran
3- Clinical Psychologist, Razi Psychiatric Hospital, Tehran, Iran
4- Student Research Committe, Faculty of Medicine, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran
5- Assistant Professor Of Pediatrics Hematology & Oncology, Thalassemia Research Center, Faculty of Medicine, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, IR Iran. |
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Abstract: (217 Views) |
Background:Thalassemia is the most common hereditary blood disease, and patients with thalassemia major need continuous blood transfusions to survive.Continuous blood transfusion in these patients is associated with iron.The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between personality traits and iron overload in these patients.
Materials and Methods:This study is a cross-sectional study that was conducted on transfusion dependent thalassemia patients. The clinical and laboratory information of the patient was collected using the medical record. Then the patients answered the 5-factor neo personality questionnaire, which is a 60-question questionnaire.
Results:The results showed that the personality characteristic of conscientiousness was more in people with regular visits than in people with irregular visits (P=0.021).In the study of the relationship between liver iron overload and the regularity of visits, it was seen that iron overload has a significant relationship with the regularity of visits (P=0.018), so that moderate and severe iron overload was more in people who had irregular visits. But cardiac iron overload had no significant relationship with regular visits (P=0.910). The use of chelators had a significant relationship with the characteristic of neurosis (P=0.021), so that the score of neurosis in patients who took chelators was higher than those who did not use chelators.
Conclusion:The findings of this research showed that there was no significant relationship between any of the personality traits with iron overload in patients with transfusion-dependent thalassemia, except for conscientiousness, which was more in people with regular visits than in people with irregular visits.
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| Keywords: Thalassemia, Iron Overload, Personality Trait |
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Type of Study: Research |
Subject:
Neonatology & Newborn Nursery- NICU-Surgery
Received: 2023/11/10 | Accepted: 2024/04/22 | Published: 2024/05/20
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