AB040. The investigation and analysis about the relationship between the mental health and personality of the azoospermia patients

Background: To explore the relationship between the personality and negative emotion of the azoospermia patients and then provide the theory evidences for the psychotherapy and nursing of patients with azoospermia.

Methods: The 90 Symptom Checklist (SCL-90) and Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ-RSC) were used as the research tools. 211 patients diagnosed with azoospermia by the technique of testicular biopsy in our hospital were acquired according with the principle of random sampling from January 2014 to April 2015 and conducted a survey.

Results: (I) A total of 211 questionnaires were completed, among which 196 questionnaires were valid and the effective rate was 92.89%; (II) analysing the correlation between SCL-90 and EPQ scores of patients with azoospermia showed that the psychoticism and neuroticism factor of the personality were positively related with the negative emotion of patients, however, the internal and external factor was negatively correlated with the negative emotions of patients.

Conclusions: The extrovert, stable and integrated types of the personality of the patients with azoospermia has a certain “resist” capability for negative emotions, and introverted, emotional and mental disorders types are susceptible to negative emotions.

Keywords: Azoospermia; mental health; personality; temperament type; mental nursing