Personality Profile Of Sero-Positive And Seronegative Pregnant Women Using Rorschach Test.

Introduction: Personality of sero-positive and sero-negative pregnant mothers was defined after considering factors like Total productivity, locations, determinants and contents. Seropositive personality shows low productivity, increased reaction time, rejection of more plates, lower number of human responses, higher number of animal responses, colour shock, high F+%, shading and narrow content categories on Rorschach ink-blot test. This suggests depressive tendencies. Method: Rorschach test was administered to sero-positive pregnant women (n=50) and sero-negative pregnant women (n=50) in this study. Result : Sero-negative personality also shows less productivity, increased reaction time and response, less whole response, more detailed responses which suggest anxiety and some sero-negative mothers showing depression. Rejection of plates was less as compared to sero-positive pregnant mothers, the human responses are less, high F+%, shading responses are not seen, and colour shock is absent, popular responses are expectedly more.

Prevalence of cardiac autonomic neuropathy in patients with diabetes.

Background: Autonomic neuropathy is a serious complication of diabetes mellitus. Cardiac autonomic neuropathy (CAN) is chronic diabetic complication with variable prevalence and clinical manifestations. Prevalence of CAN remains less explored domain among type 2 diabetic population. Aim: To analyse the prevalence of CAN in type 1 and type 2 DM. Materials and methods: A total of 152 cases with DM were selected for the study following strict inclusion and exclusion criteria. All the cases underwent a battery of cardiovascular reflex tests designed by Ewing. Results: We observed that overall prevalence of CAN was 51.9%. Prevalence of sympathetic and parasympathetic CAN was 28.9% and 44% respectively. When compared, prevalence of CAN in type 1 patients was significantly different from type 2. Further, significant difference was noted between parasympathetic and sympathetic CAN in these patients. Conclusion: Study concludes that, prevalence of CAN in type 1 DM is higher than type 2. Parasympathetic CAN prevalence is higher than sympathetic CAN in both groups.