Psychological tests were performed, validated, and administered by the same psychologist.
RESULTS
Sixty-four percent of the patients, 17 women and 13 men, showed type A behavior. The anxiety test showed that 50% of the group, 11 women and 4 men, presented a state anxiety, which exceeded the cutoff point and that this was different in the 2 sexes, with higher levels in the women (P=0.03).
Fifty-four percent of the subjects examined also showed a trait anxiety, which exceeded the cutoff point. Both trait and state anxiety proved to be more evident in type A subjects (P=0.001.)
IOP in type A patients was 20.2±2.57 mm Hg (range, 16 to 27 mm Hg) and in type B patients was 20.4±1.59 mm Hg (range, 18 to 25 mm Hg).
The daily tonometric curve (Fig. 1) shows that in subjects with type A personality there are greater fluctuations.
FIGURE 1
8. Test of psychic distress: IGD questionnaire to assess the level of this and of the psychopathologic symptoms together with levels of self-esteem, extroversion, and the distress level.
9. State-Trait Anxiety Inventory test (STAI test).
10. Brief-cope test.
11. Life event.