[The role of the respiratory and relaxation training in the treatment of the patients after the surgical treatment of non-specific pulmonary diseases].

The present study included 62 patients who had undergone the surgical intervention for the treatment of non-specific pulmonary diseases. All the patients were subjected to the psychological and spirometric examination. The study has demonstrated the relationship between the characteristics of the external respiration function on the one hand and the ability to handle stress, the levels of anxiety, tension, emotional instability and hypochondriacal mood on the other hand. It was shown that the respiratory and relaxation training improves the effectiveness of the treatment of the patients presenting with such symptoms due to the correction of their psychological status and optimization of the external respiration function. The highest effectiveness of the respiratory and relaxation training was documented in the patients suffering moderate neurotic disorders.

[The efficacy of combined psychogenic correction of the compromised reserve capacities in the patients presenting with chronic somatic diseases].

The present study included 105 patients presenting with various chronic somatic diseases. Their psychological status was estimated with the use of the abridged variant of the multifactor questionnaire MMPI, STAI scale, Beck depression scale, quality of life scale, and stress tolerance self-assessment scale. It was shown that the proposed method of combined psychological correction is efficacious for the enhancement of psychological reserves of the patients, reduction of anxiety, tension, hypochondriac thoughts, irritability, impulsiveness, and ostentation, heightening of the mood and activity. The improved quality of life associated with combined correction of the psychological status is attributable to the reduction of the number of restrictions necessary to avoid situations leading to emotional stress.

[Factors affecting psychological reserves in the patients presenting with chronic somatic diseases].

The present study included 105 patients suffering chronic somatic diseases (CSD). Their health status was estimated based on the brief multifactor questionnaire for personality (BMQP) analysis; Spielberg state trait anxiety inventory (STAI); the Beck depression scale with the use of the "patient's quality of life" method; the well-being, activity, and mood (WAM) self-assessment test, and the stress-tolerance self-assistance test. The impairment of psychological reserve was documented in 85.7% of the patients with CSD. The degree of CSD deterioration was shown to be related to the frequency of exacerbation of clinical conditions, the severity of pain syndrome, the level of anxiety, depression, and hypochondriac mood. The impairment of psychological reserve was accompanied by the deterioration of the quality of life due to constraints imposed by the necessity to undergo medical treatment, avoid situations of emotional stress, restrict the scope of physical and social activities.

[The influence of respiratory relaxation training on psychological reserves in patients with chronic somatic diseases].

Comparative analysis of dynamics of the psychological status of 25 patients with chronic somatic diseases is presented. The patients were subjected to psychocorrection by respiratory relaxation training (RRT). The control group comprised 26 patients with the same problems undergoing no RRT. The evaluation was based on MMPI (Mini-Mult variant), STAI, Beck's depression inventory, quality of life inventory, and stress tolerance self-assessment scale. Respiratory relaxation training enhanced psychological reserves of the patients by reducing the anxiety and tension levels, modulating hypochondriac mood, by increasing psychological resistance to stress. These changes resulted in marked improvement of the quality of life. The efficiency of respiratory relaxation training in patients with elevated levels of impulsivity and demonstrativity proved lower than in patients with depressive disorders.

[The effect of contrast baths on central nervous system function in patients with a disordered menstrual function]. / Vliianie kontrastnykh vann na funktsional'noe sostoianie tsentral'noi nervnoi sistemy u bol'nykh s narusheniem menstrual'noi funktsii.

EEG, REG, psychoemotional tests have been performed in 26 females of reproductive age suffering from neuroendocrine syndrome with dysmenorrhea. The findings were indicative of defects in cerebral function and circulation. This confirms contribution of the central nervous system to the onset of their disease. The treatment with contrast baths resulted in recovery of mechanisms of cerebral regulation as seen from attenuation of clinical symptoms, positive changes in psychoemotional status, EEG and REG.

[Effects of psychological status on external respiration in patients operated for nonspecific lung diseases]. / Vlianie psikhologicheskogo statusa na funktsiiu vneshnego dykhaniia u bol'nykh, operirovannykh po povodu nespetsificheskikh zabolevanii legkikh.

Psychological tests and spirometry were used in examination of 39 patients operated on for severe chronic nonspecific pulmonary diseases. It was found that external respiration function was impaired more in emotionally strained subjects. Improvement of the external respiration coincided with diminution of hypochondria, positive changes in psychological status as a whole.