TY - JOUR
T1 - Harmony seeking and the risk of prostate cancer
T2 - A prebioptic study
AU - Kumano, Hiroaki
AU - Haseme, Etsuko
AU - Fujimoto, Hiroyuki
AU - Matsuoka, Naoki
AU - Yoshiuchi, Kazuhiro
AU - Uchitomi, Yosuke
AU - Akechi, Tatsuo
AU - Nakano, Tomohito
AU - Kobayashi, Minatsu
AU - Agari, Ichiro
AU - Kuboki, Tomifusa
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported, in part, by an unrestricted grant from the Smoking Research Foundation, Tokyo, Japan, the amount and length of which were US$19,000/year and 3 years, from 2001 to 2003 fiscal year, respectively.
Copyright:
Copyright 2008 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2005/9
Y1 - 2005/9
N2 - Objective: This semiprospective case-control study was performed to investigate the relationship between harmony-seeking personality and the occurrence of prostate cancer. Methods: Out of 217 consecutive participants admitted to hospital for biopsy, 86 and 81 were classified into the case and control groups, respectively, based on their initial diagnosis and eligibility criteria. The participants answered several questionnaires after admission. The logistic regression model was used for multivariate analyses to assess the association. Results: "Harmony-seeking personality" was selected as the only psychological variable significantly contributing to the model, while "family history of prostate cancer" as the only somatic variable. "Harmony-seeking" maintained a significant contribution to the model, also including "family history" and even to the model adjusted by "patient prediction of cancer diagnosis" and "prostate-specific antigen" (PSA), probably related to the consequences of the disease. Conclusion: The harmony-seeking personality could differentiate between groups of men with and without prostate cancer.
AB - Objective: This semiprospective case-control study was performed to investigate the relationship between harmony-seeking personality and the occurrence of prostate cancer. Methods: Out of 217 consecutive participants admitted to hospital for biopsy, 86 and 81 were classified into the case and control groups, respectively, based on their initial diagnosis and eligibility criteria. The participants answered several questionnaires after admission. The logistic regression model was used for multivariate analyses to assess the association. Results: "Harmony-seeking personality" was selected as the only psychological variable significantly contributing to the model, while "family history of prostate cancer" as the only somatic variable. "Harmony-seeking" maintained a significant contribution to the model, also including "family history" and even to the model adjusted by "patient prediction of cancer diagnosis" and "prostate-specific antigen" (PSA), probably related to the consequences of the disease. Conclusion: The harmony-seeking personality could differentiate between groups of men with and without prostate cancer.
KW - Family history
KW - Harmony-seeking personality
KW - Logistic regression analysis
KW - Prebioptic study
KW - Prostate cancer
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jpsychores.2005.04.006
DO - 10.1016/j.jpsychores.2005.04.006
M3 - Article
C2 - 16198190
AN - SCOPUS:25644440566
SN - 0022-3999
VL - 59
SP - 167
EP - 174
JO - Journal of Psychosomatic Research
JF - Journal of Psychosomatic Research
IS - 3
ER -
