[A method of rapid psychological diagnosis of patients with a history of myocardial infarction].

The aim of the study was to develop a compact questionnaire for analysis of the psychological status of patients who had survived a myocardial infarction (MI) meant for physicians with no special psychology or psychiatry training. For this purpose of 185 questions selected by expert method on the data of 236 cases of MI using the program of stepped discriminant analysis, 37 most informative questions were chosen. These questions allowed determination of the general response to MI (adequate or neurotic) as well as of the degree of overestimation or negation of the disease and the degree of anxious-depressive syndrome.

[Socio-psychological characteristics of patients with hypertension].

A study of the sociopsychologic status of hypertensive patients showed labile and stable forms of essential hypertension to be associated with different personality features. A relationship was demonstrated between the duration of the patient's disability and the specifics of psychologic makeup.

[Multifactorial rating scale of psychosocial changes in patients with a history of myocardial infarct].

The developed multifactorial assessment schedule is sufficiently valid and can be successfully applied to dynamic studying the psychosocial factors, which are connected with the rehabilitation of the patients who have survived myocardial infarction. Owing to its simplicity and universality the schedule can be easily introduced into health care practice and applied according to the study tasks.

[Method of evaluating the psychological conflict in patients who have had a myocardial infarct].

A test for quantitative appraisal of psychological confliction is described. A variant of the "Polar personality profiles" method (SDF) is used as the basis of the test. The corresponding scheme for presenting the SDF and interpreting the data obtained is elaborated.