[Psychological features of new male and female cases of pulmonary tuberculosis and their social adaptation].
Psychological examinations of new cases of pulmonary tuberculosis used a symptomatology questionnaire, methods for psychological diagnosis of the types of their attitudes to the disease, a glossary and typology of adaptive behavior. Neurotic disorders were revealed in 83.3% of the new cases, but they were encountered by 16.4% more frequently in females than in males. The males and females showed anosognotic and sensitive responses to the disease, respectively. After treatment the females more frequently developed a regressive type of adaptive behavior while the males displayed a dysadaptive one. The revealed features make it possible to make the patients' rehabilitation on an individual basis.
Lomachenkov
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Department of Tuberculosis and Psychiatry, Smolensk Medical Academy.
Kosheleva
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D000223:Adaptation, Psychological / Q000502:physiology*; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012727:Sex Characteristics; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000523:psychology* / Q000534:rehabilitation