Personality profile in patients with polycystic ovary syndrome

To investigate the personality traits of patients with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS).

Forty-nine patients with PCOS and 34 healthy controls were enrolled in the study. Psychometric evaluation was made with the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory. Additionally, Short Form-36 (SF-36) and Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) were also performed.

Polycystic ovary syndrome patients had significantly higher absolute and clinical elevation scores on depression, hysteria, psychasthenia and hypomania compared with the controls. Patients with PCOS had lower SF-36 physical and mental health summary scores and higher HADS anxiety and depression subscale scores.

Polycystic ovary syndrome patients seem to have depressive, hysterical, psychasthenic and hypomanic personality traits.