Community Health Journal

Community Health Journal

Comparison of Personality Characteristics and Subjective Well-being in Cardiovascular Disease and Cancer Patients Referreding to the Treatment Centers of Rafsanjan and Kerman in 2011

Authors
S Gholamrezaei
R Sadrmohammadi
M Fazilatpour
T Ahmadzade
Abstract
  Introduction : Many physical diseases could be the result of mental problems and are associated with personality traits. Diseases could also affect the well-being of patients. The aim of this study was comparison of personality characteristics and subjective well-being of catdio vascular and cancer patients referring to the treatment centers in Rafsanjan and Kerman in 2011.   Material and Methods : This Cross-sectional study. was conducted on the patients referring to the cardiac and cancer treatment centers in Rafsanjan and Kerman. Among them 100 were randomly selected as sample and the five-factor personality and subjective well-being questionnaire were completed. Furthermore, these patients were compared to 50 subjects with matched Grouping. Data were analyzed using Variance and stepwise multiple linear regression. Data were entered into SPSS 19 software and were analyzed by using stepwise multiple linear regression.   Results : The results showed that subjective well-being among the people with heart disease, cancer and healthy controls was significantly different (P
Keywords
personality characteristics
Subjective Well-being
heart disease
cancer