[Emotional-personality condition of patients with some gastroenterological diseases]

Characteristics of personality and emotional condition were studied in 160 patients from Moscow (Russia) and Chardzhou (Turkmenistan) with various gastroenterological diseases: duodenal ulcer, chronic gastritis, chronic cholecystitis, irritable colon syndrome. Actual psychogenia occurred frequently in all the patients, children's psychogenia was more frequent in Moscow patients with duodenal ulcer. In patients with duodenal ulcer and chronic gastritis both from Moscow and Chardzhou the incidence of stress in everyday life was rather high. All the examinees suffered from mild or moderate depression found more frequently in Moscow patients with chronic gastritis.