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Mental disturbances in patients with acute medical condition

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2020

B. Fedak*
Affiliation:
Kharkov medical academy of postgraduate education - Kharkov, psychotherapy, Kharkov, Ukraine

Abstract

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Contemporary remains understudied health issue - the psychological aspect of the acute therapeutic diseases problem. Among the most common diseases - coronary heart disease (CHD), myocardial infarction (MI), crisis states in patients with arterial hypertension (AH), transient ischemic attack (TIA) and acute stroke (AS), gastric ulcer and duodenal ulcer (GU&DU). Clinical features of the structure, dynamics, current and immediate link with the medical conditions is not fully understood. The basis of our research, the purpose of which, was to identify mental disturbances in patients with acute therapeutic diseases. One hundred and eighty-seven patients were examined, 34 CHD patients, 37–MI, 38 - TIA, 39–AH, 39 - GU&DU, 65% male and 35% female aged 20 to 60 years. The main research method was clinical and psychopathological. A high-level affective and neurotic disorders in these patients was observed. Structured analysis allowed identifying four main options disturbances: nosogenic neurotic reaction–68 patients; somatogenic asthenic syndrome–46 patients; reaction psychological maladjustment–34 patients; acute stress reactions–39 patients. Stratification of structure psychopathological syndroms allowed systematizing them in 4 different groups: asthenic–24%; anxiety - 46%; subdepressive - 11%; somatoform - 19%. That was the basis for the determination early psychotherapeutic correction program, formed by integrative model. The high efficacy was shown in 74% patients, middle range–in 15%, low–in 11% patients.

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