Clinical and psychophysiologic adaptation of patients with acute radiation sickness after various radiation accidents

The work was aimed to evaluate adaptation of acute radiation sickness patients suffered in Chernobyl nuclear power station accident and in various radiation accidents, who underwent follow-up psychophysiologic examination. Clinical and psychophysiologic follow-up examination covered 32 acute radiation sickness patients, out of which 11 ones with severe and extremely severe grade, who underwent Chernobyl nuclear power station accident, and 21 acute radiation sickness patient from other radiation accidents. The authors demonstrated leading role of such psychologic traits as hypochondriasis, anxiety about health, emotional tension, anxiety, inclination to depression, frustration tension, low self-confidence, affect rigidity, discontentment about situation and personal position in it, restriction of contacts with others - in decrease of strength and integration of behaviour, that caused adaptation disorders in distant period among acute radiation sickness patients suffered from Chernobyl nuclear power station accident and in acute radiation sickness patients from other radiation accidents, and in connection with features of the stress situation and of the examinees' personality. Intellectual faculties (according to Kettell test) and imaginative and logic thinking (Ravenn test) in the patients underwent radiation accidents were not affected, but was higher than the average in acute radiation sickness patients suffered from Chernobyl nuclear power station accident, especially in first 15 years of observation, and equalled to intellectual level of acute radiation sickness patients from other radiation accidents in the following 15 years of observation.

острая лучевая болезнь, ионизирующее излучение, адаптация, атеросклероз, гипертоническая болезнь, ишемическая болезнь сердца, цереброваскулярная болезнь, адаптация, acute radiation sickness, ionizing radiation, adaptation, atherosclerosis, arterial hypertension, coronary heart disease, cerebrovascular disease, adaptation

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