title: [Psychoadaptive peculiarities in patients with diabetes mellitus].
abstract: At the Department of Endocrinology of the Republican Central Clinical Hospital the fixed set method (FSM) by D. Uznadze was used to examine 203 patients with Diabetes Mellitus (DM)--79 patients (38,92%) with DM type I, 124 patients (61,08%) with DM type II. Among the patients with DM predominated the dynamic type, roughness and weakness of the FS. There were some differences between psychoadaptive features of patients with DM type I and DM type II. In both cases of DM patients predominated dynamic type and weak FS, but the quantitative parameters were higher in DM type 1 patients. Patients with DM type I were characterized by labile FS, while the patients with DM type II had stable FS. In relation to the age, plasticity frequency decreases and roughness of FS increases by age. Dynamic and weak FS was most frequently observed in the patients primary diagnosed for DM in the hospital, those manifested with ketoacydosis, with labile clinic of DM and those with ketoacydosis and hypoglycemic episodes in the anamnesis. Periods of clinical compensation were characterized by plasticity of FS. The group of patients where diabetic late complications were not manifested were not observed was characterized by the dominance of the dynamic type. Use of FSM in DM patients gives us an opportunity for psychodiagnostics and for selection of patients for individual psychocorrection.
authors.affiliation: Tbilisi State Medical University, Georgia.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Kavtaradze
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Kezeli
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Khubua
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological / Q000502:physiology; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000523:psychology*; D018450:Disease Progression; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011581:Psychological Tests