Features of psycho - emotional sphere of patients with stress – associated arterial hypertension

Abstract

The aim of this study is to examine the association between symptoms of stress-tension, depression and anxiety and hypertension status. In the studu were used next questionnaires Determination of nervous and mental strain ( by T. Nemchin, 1988), the scale of PSM-25 ( by Lemyr-Tessier-Fillion-, 1983), Method for determining stress-tndurance and social adaptation (by Holmes and Rage, 1995) Boston stres -endurance test, and evaluation of stress (by Kouhen, 1995), Beck depression scale (BDI) , self-test hypochondria (by Wilson test ), exhaustion of vitality ( by Appels ) and scales of anxiety ( by Spielberger ) . The study of changes in the level of psycho-emotional men with hypertension proven correlation with the degree of hypertension severity of mental disorders . This result proves, that successful treatment of hypertension impossible without psychotherapy and / or use of psychopharmacological agents.