Minnesota multiphasic personality inventory profile of patients with chronic sinusitis

Chronic sinusitis is one of the most common diseases in the general populat ion. We investigated the personality traits of non-psychiatric patients in chronic sinusitis and non-sinusitis groups. In this study we evaluated 25 p atients with chronic sinusitis and 25 subjects as a control group. In the a nalysis of the psychiatric status, MMPI profiles were used. We found that t he depression and social introversion subscales were higher in males, where as the hypochondriasis and social introversion subscales were higher in fem ales with chronic sinusitis. It is concluded that the psychological functio ns of the patients with chronic sinusitis are poorer than in the non-sinusi tic group.