title: [Psychologic problems in patients with diabetes mellitus and myocardial infarction].
abstract: A group was studied of 20 patients with diabetes mellitus treated in the Department of Cardiology for acute myocardial infarction. The duration of diabetes mellitus in these patients was from 5 months to 6 years, and in all patients this was the first myocardial infarction. For the study of personal features of the patients with diabetes mellitus and myocardial infarction R.B. Cattell's Self-Perception Sheet, H. Gough's ACL Adjective Test, and Multi-symptomatic Diagnostic Scale MMPI-WISKAD were used. The studied showed that the group of patients with diabetes mellitus and myocardial infarction was characterized by greater intensity of depression symptoms, excessive interest in own organism and its fitness with significant manifestation of hypochondriac-hysterical features and high level of restlessness and anxiety. The results of our study revealed many common features (great similarity) in the personality of patients with diabetes mellitus and myocardial infarction and patients with only diabetes but less common features with non-diabetic patients with myocardial infarction.
authors.affiliation: Katedry i Kliniki Kardiologii Ak. Med., Lublinie.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Nasiłowska-Barud
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Markiewicz
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001008:Anxiety Disorders / Q000209:etiology; D003863:Depression / Q000209:etiology; D003925:Diabetic Angiopathies / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006998:Hypochondriasis / Q000209:etiology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000523:psychology*; D011581:Psychological Tests
vernacular_title: Psychologiczne problemy u chorych z cukrzyca i zawałem serca.