title: [Psychometric studies on female patients during sterility counseling].
abstract: The application of the VNPI-test, i.e. neurosis screening, to 46 female patients attending consultations on sterility, is reported. For patients having normal genital organs, the test results indicated a neurotic personality at rate three times higher (52%) than for patients found to have pathological genitals (17%). This result is understood to confirm the opinion which, in addition to somatic causes, also accepts  a psychogenic etiology of sterility. Therefore, the importance of early psychological investigation is pointed out, which should not start as late as once all somatic efforts have failed.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D005859:Germany, East; D006801:Humans; D007247:Infertility, Female / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D009497:Neurotic Disorders / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis; D010555:Personality Inventory; D011594:Psychometrics
vernacular_title: Psychometrische Untersuchungen an Patientinnen einer Sterilitätssprechstunde