Coping patterns for nosogenic factors of psychotraumati¬zation among patients with psychoendocrine syndrome

Abstract

In order to establish patterns and coping strategies in relation to the nosogenic factors of psychotraumatization among the patients with psychoendocrine syndrome on the background of metabolic disorders of the thyroid gland, adrenal cortex and hypogonadism, at the Ukrainian Scientific and Practical Center for Endocrine Surgery, Transplantation of Endocrine Organs and Tissues of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine, 400 patients with the indicated forms of endocrine disorders were examined. The study was conducted with the introduction of the psychodiagnostic method and the Lazarus copying test was used in the study of group comparison. Coping patterns were studied in relation to such factors: the formation of functional and morphological disorders, the presence of a chronic disease, physical activity restrictions, the presence of severely experienced symptoms of the disease, the need for treatment with drugs that have side effects, which adversely affect the state, cancerophobic experience, introspective cognitive and mental disorders, the need for diagnostic procedures and therapeutic measures with high cost, presence of labor restrictions which causes financial difficulties and loss of economically dominant role in the family, limiting the circle of communication, is associated with the presence of the disease or its symptoms, the need to follow a diet, refusal from alcohol and any stimulating substances, and dependence on hormone replacement therapy.