[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 psychological effect of clinical examination on women with tubal infertility].

OBJECTIVE: To comprehend the psychological effects in the course of diagnosis and treatment of infertility on the sexuality, emotional feeling and marriage of women with tubal infertility. METHODS: The study involved 180 hospitalized patients who were awaiting tube operation from May to September in the year 2000. A survey was made by using questionnaire about sexuality, emotional feeling and marriage after infertility examinations. RESULTS: The sexual intercourse frequency of 46.2% infertile women decreased and no influences on sexual living satisfaction were confirmed during basal body temperature (BBT) examination. 92.3% to 93.2% of the infertile women were sad after hysterosalpingography(HSG) and laparoscopy. 78.9% of them felt remorse when the result of semen examination was normal. 56.6% of them would choose in vitro fertilization and embryo transfer(IVF-ET); 38.9% of the infertile couples' wedlock would not be stable and 10.5% of them would be divorced in the case of continuing infertility 2 years after tube operation. CONCLUSION: Sexual intercourse in almost half of the infertile couples decreased during BBT examination. Most infertile women became sad when they were informed of the abnormal results of HSG and laparoscopy and the normal results of semen analysis.

[A comparative assessment of different cryotherapy methods for patients with chronic nonspecific salpingo=oophoritis]. / Sravnitel'naia otsenka razlichnykh metodik krioterapii bol'nykh khronicheskim nespetsificheskim sal'pingooforitom.

97 females at reproductive age with chronic nonspecific salpingo-oophoritis (CNSO) were examined and treated. The results of the treatment (vaginal and external impact) demonstrate positive effects of various cryotherapeutic techniques on CNSO clinical course, on hormonal and immune unbalance, functional activity of the uterine tubes, regional hemodynamics, psychoemotional status. Thus, cryotherapy is an effective adjuvant in combined therapy of CNSO.

[A program of intensive nondrug treatment for functional tubal infertility]. / Programma intensivnogo nemedikamentoznogo lecheniia funktsional'nogo trubnogo besplodiia.

The program of combined use of nonpharmaceutical modalities to treat functional tubal infertility proposed by the authors is effective in correction of contractile activity of the uterine tubes and psychoemotional condition of the patients. Due to the treatment, the reproductive function recovered in 56% of the patients under 30 years of age who had been infertile less than 5 years.