ABSTRACT
AIM: To examine psychological and emotional disorders in patients with infectious diseases, to specify indications for their pharmacological correction. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Clinicopsychological, clinicofunctional and laboratory tests were made to examine 30 patients with infectious mononucleosis (19 females and 11 males) and 30 patients with serous meningitis (16 females and 14 males) aged 16-35 admitted to hospital on the disease day 2-14. RESULTS: Shmishek's questionnaire revealed various types of personality accentuations with dominating hyperthymic (30%) and cyclothymic (20%). According to the data of the clinical scale SCL-90, the greatest number of cases with values over normal was in patients with serous meningitis. Beck's questionnaire revealed clinical depression in 12 patients (40%) with acute serous meningitis, subdepression in 14(46.7%) patients, severe depression in 6(20%) patients with infectious mononucleosis. In convalescence, emotional disorders persisted in 4 patients with serous meningitis. CONCLUSION: Affective disorders in the above patients require consultation of the psychiatrist to decide on psychopharmacotherapy inclusion in combined treatment of infectious diseases to prevent lingering course.
Subject(s)
Enterovirus Infections/psychology , Infectious Mononucleosis/psychology , Meningitis, Viral/psychology , Mood Disorders/etiology , Mumps/psychology , Acute Disease , Adolescent , Adult , Age Factors , Depression/diagnosis , Depression/drug therapy , Depression/etiology , Diagnosis, Differential , Female , Follow-Up Studies , Humans , Male , Mood Disorders/diagnosis , Mood Disorders/drug therapy , Psychological Tests , Psychotropic Drugs/therapeutic use , Sex Factors , Surveys and Questionnaires , Time FactorsABSTRACT
30 patients with infectious mononucleosis (19 females and 11 males) and 30 ones with serous meningitis (16 females and 14 males) aged 16-35 years admitted to hospital on the disease day 2-14 were examined clinicopsychologically, clinicofunctionally and using laboratory tests. The examination has revealed emotional disturbances in 40% of patients with serous meningitis and 20% of those with infectious mononucleosis. Clinical manifestations were characterized by polymorphism, combination of somatovegetative and anxiodepressive disorders. Personality accentuations in the patients are described.
