title: [Experiences with a standardized questionnaire for determination of the vegetative lability and certain life and behavior styles in patients of internal medicine clinic].
abstract: 180 students without pathological psychic findings, 233 students with psychic disturbances, 168 internal patients with vegetative disturbances and 231 patients with progressive chronic polyarthritis were interrogated with the VELA-questionnaire of Fahrenberg and the ENR-questionnaire according to Brengelmann and Brengelmann. Compared with the normal group all other groups had significantly higher VELA-values. The combination E less than 10, N greater then 26 was found in students without pathological psychic findings in 2.8%, in patients with rheumatism in 7.4%, in internal patients in 21.4% and in students with psychic disturbances in 24.1%. With this combination and another one with extreme values 5.1% of the comparative group, 9.6% of the patients with somatic diseases and approximately 61.4% of the patients with a high number of vegetative complaints are suspicious of a psychic disturbance which must be treated.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000553:Ambulatory Care; D001172:Arthritis, Rheumatoid / Q000150:complications; D001519:Behavior; D006801:Humans; D008019:Life Style; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis; D009422:Nervous System Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*; D011602:Psychophysiologic Disorders / Q000150:complications; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
vernacular_title: Erfahrungen mit standardisierten Fragebogen zur Erfassung der vegetativen Labilität und bestimmter Erlebens- und Verhaltensweisen bei Patienten einer internistischen Ambulanz