Study on correlation between mood and personality of breast cancer patient with chemotherapy

Objective To explore the mood state and personality traits of breast cancer patients and their correlation.Methods In the stage of chemotherapy,patients with primary breast cancer were investigated with profile of mood statesshort form(POMS-SF) and eysenck personality questionnaire short scale for Chinese version(EPQ-RSC),and the data were analyzed.Results The scores of negative emotion tension-anxiety,fatigue-inertia and confusion-bewilderment were greater than 5 points,and the scores were in "a little" to "moderate".There were more than 30% patients whose fatigueinertia,depression-dejection and tension-anxiety scores were above 2 points.In personality traits,the scale scores of ex traversion,neuroticism and lie were higher than the norm(P 0.05).By partial correlation analysis,dimension extraversion of EPQ-RSC was negative correlation with negative emotion and the POMS-SF total score,and positive correlation with positive emotional vigor(P 0.05).Dimension neuroticism of EPQ-RSC was positive correlation with negative emotion and the POMS-SF total score,and negative correlation with positive emotional vigor(P 0.05).Conclusion Personality traits of breast cancer patients with chemotherapy is closely related to mood state.In clinical nursing intervention,nurses should carry on the effective psychological intervention in view of their personality traits,in order to alleviate the negative emo tions of patients.