[The age peculiarities of nonpsychotic forms of psychogenic disorders caused by everyday stressors].
Three groups of patients were examined in the period of 1994-1999: adolescent (aged 15-18 years), middle-aged (25-59 years) and elderly (60 years and older) with non-psychotic mental disorders developing under the influence of everyday stressors. The highest tolerability to stressors was detected in the middle-aged group. The dominating stressors in the groups were: social situations in the adolescences; interfamily conflicts--in the middle-aged patients and a presence of disease--in the elderly. Stressogenic affective disorders occurred most often in all the groups; anxious-phobic states prevailed in adolescents; neurotic pictures with hysteri-form symptoms, converse type--in the middle age and anxious phobic disorders with primary psychoorganic appearances--in the elderly. Risk factors for psychogenic disorders are: male sex, "organic predisposition", accentuation of the personality, "destructive" types of family bringing up in the adolescences; female sex, signs of endogenic diathesis and reactive lability for the middle-aged patients and female sex, aging factor and related changes of personality as well as somatic diseases in the elderly.
Mazaeva
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Siriachenko
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Suetina
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000375:Aging; D001008:Anxiety Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology; D003220:Conflict, Psychological; D005190:Family; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008016:Life Change Events; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology; D008875:Middle Aged; D019964:Mood Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology; D009497:Neurotic Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology; D010551:Personality; D010698:Phobic Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology; D012307:Risk Factors; D012737:Sex Factors; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000150:complications*