Does fluoxetine influence major depression by modifying five-factor personality traits?
The results suggest that (a) significant differences exist between the personality profiles of depressed patients and healthy control subjects and (b) responders to treatment with fluoxetine show significant changes in personality profile. These changes may be attributed to improvement of depressive symptoms.
Distress in oncology clinics seems to be continuous; thus, the use of distress thermometer as a precautionary measure for distress development in patients with malignancies should be mandatory to help medical oncologists understand the psychosocial needs of their patients and start to treat them as a human beings.