ATTITUDES TOWARDS DISEASE IN PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC PHASE OF ISCHEMIC STROKE BY THE RESULTS OF THE PERSONAL QUESTIONNAIRE OF THE BEKHTEREV INSTITUTE

Abstract

Every year, strokes are diagnosed in about 16 million people, of whom 5.7 million die and about the same number become disabled (Feigin V.L., Forouzanfar M.H., Krishnamurthi R., et al., 2014; Virani S.S., Alonso A., Benjamin E.J., et al., 2020; Kim J., Thayabaranathan T., Donnan G.A., et al. 2020). The objective of our research was to study the attitudes towards disease in patients with chronic phase of ischemic stroke. Material and methods. 100 consecutive patients with chronic phase of ischemic stroke and 17 patients with chronic cerebral ischemia were questioned in neurology in-patient department. The types of attitude towards disease were identified with the help of the Personal Questionnaire of the Bekhterev Institute. Results. We found that pathological types of attitude towards disease begin to form before the development of a stroke as a result of chronic cerebral ischemia. Among patients with chronic phase of ischemic stroke, pathological types of attitude towards disease prevailed significantly, and the harmonious type was rare (84.0% vs 16.0%, p < 0.001). The most frequently observed were neurasthenic (36.0%), harmonious (16.0%), anxious (16.0%), ergopathic (10.0%) and sensitive (8.0%) types of attitude towards disease. Our study has shown that any ischemic stroke, even in the case of complete recovery of the lost functions, can be associated with pathological types of attitude towards disease. Keywords: ischemic stroke, the Personal Questionnaire of the Bekhterev Institute, attitudes towards disease.