Validation of the Russian version of the Fatigue Impact Scale and Fatigue Severity Scale in multiple sclerosis patients.

Background: Fatigue is a common complaint in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS), and its detection and monitoring are based on self-reported questionnaires. The objective of this study was to validate the Russian translation of the Fatigue Impact Scale (FIS) and the Fatigue Severity Scale (FSS) in MS patients and controls.

Methods: We included 85 MS patients and 250 age-, sex-, and body mass index (BMI)-matched controls.

[Psychological assessment of visual hemispatial neglect: standardization and approbation of the modified digit cancellation test].

Aim: To study the phenomena of visual-hemispatial neglect in healthy people and patients with brain diseases of different genesis.

Material And Methods: Eighty-eight patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders, 68 patients with exogenous organic brain diseases and 240 healthy adults of different age were included in the study. The digit cancellation test modified by the authors was used.

[Prediction of postoperative pain on the basis of the psychological characteristics of patients and standard pain stimuli].

Practical physicians do not have instruments for objective pain assessment despite recent advances of neurophysiology and pain pharmacology. The article deals with the study of relations between preoperative pain sensitivity (finger prick and venipuncture) and pain level after surgery. 60 patients involved in the study were divided into two groups.

[Social-psychological problems and their solution in anesthesiologists-resuscitators with different length of professional work].

Problems of professional stress in anesthesiologists-resuscitators at the workplace depending on the length of professional work and possibilities to overcome it are discussed on the basis of an analysis of results of psychological testing. The greatest emotional dissatisfaction of the doctors was noted in the sphere of welfare standards. An increased emotional stress and dissatisfaction result in worse constructive stress-overcoming behavior.

[Mechanisms of psychological adaptation of anesthesiologists-resuscitators to the stress-induced conditions of professional occupation and possibilities of their correction within a teaching process].

High psychological tension results in the development of specific coping behavior. Ninety-six anesthesiologists, including 62 (64.6%) males and 34 (35.