Symptoms of Dry Eye Disease and Personality Traits

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 11; no. 11; p. e0166838
• Main Authors: Ichinohe, Sho, Igarashi, Tsutomu, Nakajima, Daisuke, Ono, Masafumi, Takahashi, Hiroshi
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 18.11.2016; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Aged; Biology and Life Sciences; Cancer; Cornea; Correlation; Correlation analysis; Cross-Sectional Studies; Dry Eye Syndromes - diagnosis; Dry Eye Syndromes - epidemiology; Eye; Eye diseases; Female; Fluorescein; Gene expression; Humans; Japan - epidemiology; Male; Medical research; Medical schools; Medical treatment; Medicine and Health Sciences; Mental depression; Middle Aged; Neurosis; Ophthalmology; Pain; Patients; Personality; Personality traits; Phenotype; Psychological factors; Quantitative Trait, Heritable; Questionnaires; Signs and symptoms; Social Sciences; Surveys and Questionnaires; Tearing; Japan

The essential targets of dry eye disease (DED) treatments include both objective signs and subjective symptoms. However, due to the numerous subjective symptoms, it is understandable why little association has been found between the signs and symptoms. Although psychological influences on the subjec...