title: [Life quality, mental status and specific features of the course of diseases in patients with peptic ulcer].
abstract: At present, medicine pays a great attention to studies into life quality (LQ) in patients. A relationship is examined between LQ and the course of a disease and the personality traits of a patient. Sixty patients with peptic ulcer (PU) were included in this study. The questionnaires filled by the patients were used to assess their LQ and the factors that modify LQ to the greatest degree, as well as personality traits and pain perception in patients. The same aspect of the patients' life was additionally evaluated by physicians. Studies indicated that LQ in patients was regularly decreased with their worse health. At the same time, there were increases in the degree of emotional stress and in the proportion of patients with depressive-hypochondriac personality traits and higher pain perception. At the same time the patients' emotional experiences and neurotization rather than the course of a disease were found to predominantly affect LQ. This is likely to be borne in mind in managing such patients.
authors.forename: I Iu
authors.initials: IIu
authors.lastname: Kolesnikova
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008603:Mental Health; D010437:Peptic Ulcer / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D011788:Quality of Life; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000523:psychology
vernacular_title: Kachestvo zhizni, psikhologicheskiĭ status i osobennosti techeniia zabolevaniia u bol'nykh pri iazvennoĭ bolezni.