MEDICAL-PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSISTANCE AND INTERNAL DISEASE PICTURE IN PATIENTS WITH THYROID CANCER
Author: I.V. Grigorieva, S.A. Igumnov
Reference: Медико-биологические и социально-психологические проблемы безопасности в чрезвычайных ситуациях. (Medico-biological and socio-psychological problems of safety in emergencies ), 2009
Keywords: psychotherapy, clinical psychology,
Abstract: Study of internal disease picture has become one of the most important directions of present-day research in the field of psychotherapy and clinical psychology. The patients survived thyroid cancer surgery are referred to a risk group because of a wide spectrum of psychopathological disorders. Within this study we used Behterev institute’s personality questionnaire (LOBY) in 90 patients survived thyroid cancer surgery. The study showed considerable decrease in quality of life of the given patients in comparison with the control group. The most expressed changes were observed in physical, psycho-emotional and social domains. This study allows of timely revealing the problems of psychological and psychopathological level in the given cohort of patients and of improving the existing and developing innovative programs of psychological help.
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