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[Personality-related meaning of hospitalization and therapeutic activity for mentally ill patients in a rehabilitation center]. 1990

G V Burkovskiĭ

The author provides the results of studying attitudes of 87 mental patients towards hospitalization and therapeutic measures of the rehabilitation department. The "rehabilitation" and "institutional" meanings of the patient's admission to the clinic have been distinguished. The personality meaning of hospitalization was found to produce an effect on the patient's attitude towards rehabilitation measures. Four extreme types of so-called "problem" patients have been distinguished. They differ in the structure of their attitudes towards therapeutic measures and personality meaning of the participation in them: patients orienting primarily towards "resocialization"; towards "self-regulation" of mental functions; "towards adaptation to the hospital way of life"; towards "justification and maintenance of the patient's status". A relationship has been demonstrated between the patient's orientation towards definite categories of therapeutic measures, possessing for the patient a specific meaning of their own, and his psychopathological and personality traits.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D009042	Motivation	Those factors which cause an organism to behave or act in either a goal-seeking or satisfying manner. They may be influenced by physiological drives or by external stimuli.	Incentives,Disincentives,Expectations,Disincentive,Expectation,Incentive,Motivations
D010551	Personality	Behavior-response patterns that characterize the individual.	Personalities
D006760	Hospitalization	The confinement of a patient in a hospital.	Hospitalizations
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D001294	Attitude to Health	Public attitudes toward health, disease, and the medical care system.	Health Attitude,Attitude, Health,Attitudes, Health,Health Attitudes,Health, Attitude to
D001523	Mental Disorders	Psychiatric illness or diseases manifested by breakdowns in the adaptational process expressed primarily as abnormalities of thought, feeling, and behavior producing either distress or impairment of function.	Mental Illness,Psychiatric Diseases,Psychiatric Disorders,Psychiatric Illness,Behavior Disorders,Diagnosis, Psychiatric,Mental Disorders, Severe,Psychiatric Diagnosis,Illness, Mental,Mental Disorder,Mental Disorder, Severe,Mental Illnesses,Psychiatric Disease,Psychiatric Disorder,Psychiatric Illnesses,Severe Mental Disorder,Severe Mental Disorders
D012660	Semantics	The relationships between symbols and their meanings.	Semantic