Social and psychological feeling of patients after total hip replacement by Mittelmeier method--reference to clinical...

Social and psychological status of 40 female patients was studied, 1-3 years after total hip replacement by Mittelmeier method. The evaluation included standard tests of high reliability degree for medical purpose, like life goals ranking by Pleszewski and the semantic differential method by Osgood, Suci and Tannenbaum. Also a questionnaire was applied to analyse the situation and the subjective feelings of the patients after the surgery. The performed studies assure the positive aspect of operation and help in creating further life perspectives. The obtained output of the analysis was referred to the clinical results of the performed hip operation. Regarding the very good and good clinical results, the psychological and social feelings of the patients were connected and identified with psychological and environmental factors rather than with the very clinical result of the operation.