Objective: 
There is an important relationship between the psychiatric profiles of patients diagnosed with overactive bladder syndrome (OAB). It is aimed to determine which personality traits are dominant in female patients diagnosed with OAB and to arrange treatment modalities accordingly.

material&method
An Overactive Bladder Inquiry Form (OAB-V8) and Minnesota Versatile Personality Inventory (MMPI) form were given to 90 female patients who applied to the urology clinic for various reasons by a urologist. 38 patients with OAB symptoms and OAB-V8 score ≥8 were diagnosed with OAB. 30 patients completed all questionnaires completely. The control group included 52 individuals with an OAB-V8 score <8. Forty of these patients filled out the questionnaires completely and were included in the study. The psychiatric profiles of the patients were analyzed by a specialist psychologist. The study was supplemented with additional questionnaires to assess how patients were affected by overactive bladder.

Results
The ages of the patients ranged from 18 to 72, with a mean age of 47.24 years, while the age of control patients ranged from 23 to 68 years, with a mean age of 46.82 years. There was no statistically significant difference between the two groups in terms of mean age and body-mass index (p>0.05).
When patients with overactive bladder were compared with the control group; 
Neurotic findings were more prominent in psychiatric profile features determined according to Minnesota multidimensional personality inventory. Depression, hysteria, antisocial personality and introversion scores were found to be higher. These findings are shown statistically in the table below (Table 1).

Table 1. Means (standard deviation) and cutoff (t > 65) for MMPI clinical scales in overactive bladder patients and control group
                                               Patients with asthma (n = 30)                       Controls (n = 40)
MMPI clinical scale             Mean ± standard deviation              Mean± standard deviation          P values*
Depression†                        56.1 ± 11.3                                            52.4 ± 7.7                                      0.03 
Hypochondriasis                52.1 ± 17.3                                             50.4 ± 10.2                                    0.1 
Hysteria                               53.1 ± 21.1                                            44.6 ± 6.8                                       0.04 
Psychopathic deviate        47.6 ± 13.2                                           48.8 ± 10.4                                      0.8 
Masculinity/femininity     54.9 ± 7.8                                              58.9 ± 9.2                                        0.1 
Paranoia                              53.1 ± 18.1                                           53.2 ± 11.6                                      0.3 
Psychasthenia                    52.4 ± 15.7                                           49.2 ± 9.6                                        0.1
Social introversion            56.1 ± 11.4                                          51.7 ± 7.6                                         0.04 
Schizophrenia                     48.9 ± 11.2                                           47.5 ± 10.4                                      0.5 
Hypomania                          51.1 ± 12.8                                                            54.1 ± 6.9                                                                 0.8 
MMPI mean t score          61.6 ± 11.2                                                              60.4 ± 5.4                                                                 0.6
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory(MMPI)
italic and bold numerals, statistically significant                                                                                                                                                 Significant P values are written in italics.                                                                                                                                               *Comparison of percentage of sample elevated (t>65) for MMPI clinical scales.                                                                                          †P=0.02.

Conclusions
We concluded that women diagnosed with overactive bladder had more neurotic complaints compared to those without symptoms.