Ruocco Anthony C, Swirsky-Sacchetti Thomas, Choca James P
Department of Psychology, Neuropsychology Program, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Brain Inj. 2007 Nov;21(12):1233-44. doi: 10.1080/02699050701716919.
Despite the widespread use of objective personality inventories as part of neuropsychological assessments of traumatic brain injury (TBI) patients, little research exists to support the use of these instruments with TBI populations. The purpose of the present study is two-fold: first, to examine the prevalence and extent of personality and psychopathological disturbance in TBI patients compared with a general psychiatric sample and, secondly, to determine whether personality profiles of TBI patients fall within a pathological range relative to normative psychiatric and non-psychiatric populations.
Age-, gender- and ethnically-matched TBI and psychiatric patients (n = 462) completed the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory-III (MCMI-III).
TBI patients had more frequent elevations on histrionic, compulsive and somatoform scales compared with the matched psychiatric sample. Most scales for TBI patients fell outside of the range of the test's normative psychiatric population.
Implications for interpretation of MCMI-III profiles of TBI patients are discussed.
尽管客观人格量表作为创伤性脑损伤（TBI）患者神经心理学评估的一部分被广泛使用，但几乎没有研究支持在TBI人群中使用这些工具。本研究的目的有两个：第一，与一般精神科样本相比，检查TBI患者人格和精神病理障碍的患病率及程度；第二，确定TBI患者的人格特征相对于正常精神科和非精神科人群是否处于病理范围内。
年龄、性别和种族匹配的TBI患者和精神科患者（n = 462）完成了米隆临床多轴问卷第三版（MCMI-III）。
与匹配的精神科样本相比，TBI患者在表演型、强迫型和躯体形式量表上的得分升高更为频繁。TBI患者的大多数量表得分超出了该测试正常精神科人群的范围。
讨论了对TBI患者MCMI-III剖面图解释的意义。
