[The effect of the characteristics of maternal psychological adaptation on the outcome of labor].

The authors analyze the effect of psychologic adaptation of 108 pregnant women to the clinical course of their labor. Psychologic adaptation of pregnant women was assessed by the method of comprehensive personality analysis (the adapted variant of the Minnesota personality questionnaire). Two groups of women were distinguished: Group 1, 30 women (27.

[Use of a rating system in the assessment of 4th-year students' knowledge of obstetrics].

The rating system was used to check up students' knowledge in obstetrics at the fourth course of the therapeutic and prophylactic faculty. Comparison of the results of the rating system and the routine one evidence that introduction of the new system has essentially improved the attendance of practical studies by the students, and their mean marks were improved as well. Students' knowledge assessed by the rating system coincided with the assessment made during examinations, thus permitting the use of this system in future without resorting to traditional sessions of examinations.

[The personality characteristics of normal pregnant women and in pathology].

Altogether 357 pregnant women were examined for the personality traits using a method of an all-round study of the personality. In 96 women (group I), the course of gestation appeared favourable, whereas in 134 women, it was complicated by late gestosis (group II), and in 127 women, by threatening premature delivery (group III). The personality traits of the group I women turned out to keep within the limits of the "conditional norm" in the presence of moderate anxiety.