title: [Comparative socioeconomic, anamnestic and psychological studies of patients with uterine myoma and uterine prolapse].
abstract: 30 female patients with the diagnosis of "uterus myomatosus" and a control group of also 30 women with the diagnosis "descensus uteri et vaginae" were examined by a standardized questionnaire containing socio-economic, anamnestic and psychological data. To get information about their personality the "Freiburger Persönlichkeitsinventar" (Freiburg Personality Inventory), half-form A, was administered at the end of the interview. The age limits were 35 and 55 years. The main socio-economic results are the following: during childhood and adolescence the myom-patients lived mainly near towns (p less than 0,01). The women of this group have better relationships to their husbands than the descensus-patients (p less than 0,01) and the husbands of the myom-patients are more often (p less than 0,01) of the same age or younger than their women. 18 out of the 30 women of the myom-group (i.e. more than 50%) said that their wish to become a mother has not been fulfilled while this answer was given by none of the 30 descensus-patients (p less than 0,01). The question is discussed in how far the uterus-myom can be understood as a somatic expression of the frustrated wish to get a child, as a "compensatory growth". Beside this, the authors are aware of the fact that other aspects, f.e. hormonal factors, may be important.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D006801:Humans; D007247:Infertility, Female / Q000523:psychology; D007889:Leiomyoma / Q000523:psychology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D010551:Personality; D011602:Psychophysiologic Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D012931:Social Environment; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014594:Uterine Neoplasms / Q000523:psychology*; D014596:Uterine Prolapse / Q000523:psychology*
vernacular_title: Vergleichende sozioökonomische, anamnestische und psychologische Untersuchungen an Patientinnen mit Uterusmyom und Descensus uteri.