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Personality in Combination with Alcohol and Drug Use and Psychiatric Disorders to Predict Psychosocial Characteristics and Behaviors of Hepatitis C Patients

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The objectives of this study were to assess the prevalence of personality disorders and to examine personality as a predictor of psychosocial characteristics and behaviors of HCV patients. HCV patients (n = 259) from three infectious disease and liver clinics who completed Cloninger’s Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI), an inventory for personality traits, were included in the study. Patients with low scale scores in the character dimension of both cooperativeness and self-directedness (low CO/SD) were defined as having a personality disorder. Using low CO/SD in combination with demographic, psychiatric/substance use, and HCV-related variables, linear regression was used to construct separate models of risky behaviors, quality of life, functioning, burden of illness, and social support. The prevalence of low CO/SD was high in this sample of HCV patients. Low CO/SD was an independent predictor of risky behaviors, quality of life, functioning, and social support.

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  1. Department of Social Work, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 3137 University Hall, 1720 2nd AVE S, Birmingham, AL, 35294-1260, USA

    Omar T. Sims & David E. Pollio

  2. Department of Health Behavior, School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA

    Omar T. Sims & David E. Pollio

  3. Center for AIDS Research, School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA

    Omar T. Sims & David E. Pollio

  4. Integrative Center for Healthy Aging, School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA

    Omar T. Sims

  5. Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, Division of Prevention Science, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Omar T. Sims

  6. Department of Social Work, School of Social Sciences & Education, California State University Bakersfield, Bakersfield, CA, USA

    Hyejung Oh

  7. Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA

    Barry A. Hong

  8. School of Nursing, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA

    E. Whitney Pollio

  9. The Altshuler Center for Education & Research Metrocare Services, Dallas, TX, USA

    Carol S. North

  10. Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA

    Carol S. North

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This work was supported by a National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Grant R01 AA15201 to Dr. North. The research reported in this publication was supported by the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health under award R25DA028567 to Dr. Sims. Drs. Oh, Pollio, Hong, and Pollio do not have any conflict of interest to disclose.

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Sims, O.T., Oh, H., Pollio, D.E. et al. Personality in Combination with Alcohol and Drug Use and Psychiatric Disorders to Predict Psychosocial Characteristics and Behaviors of Hepatitis C Patients. J Clin Psychol Med Settings 28, 161–167 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10880-019-09694-4

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Keywords

  • Personality
  • Hepatitis C
  • Alcohol use
  • Drug use
  • Prevalence
  • Psychosocial