Psychoemotional state and cognitive function in patients with cerebrovascular pathology depending on level of stress risk

Abstract

Background. Somatic disease often causes psycho-emotional distress, reflecting the intensity of mental distress and the state of psychological adaptation person to a stressful situation.
 Objective – to study the characteristics of the psychoemotional state and cognitive functioning in patients with cerebrovascular pathology at different stages of development in relation to the level of stress risk.
 Materials and methods. At Kharkiv Regional Clinical Hospital – Emergency and Emergency Medicine Center during 2016-2018, observed 383 patients with cerebrovascular pathology on different stage of diseases and 47 healthy persons. In research we used Symptomatic questionnaire by Alexanrovich, “Lifestyle Analysis” test and MOCA.
 Results. The high level of stress risk in patients with cerebrovascular pathology combined with an increasing of psychoemotional distress and a change in the structure of psychopathological symptoms. In patients with cerebrovascular pathology found growth psychopathological manifestations along the axis of stress risk and the axis period of the disease, which determines the health centered lifestyle and somatic disease as important factors of mental distress. Increased stress is combined with a cognitive impairment. The growth clinical manifestations of cerebrovascular disease and especially the state after a stroke accompanied with a cognitive impairment as a result of brain injury.
 Conclusions. Investigation of the psycho-emotional and cognitive function state in connection with level of stress risk is important for the development of a complex psychological help for patients with cerebrovascular pathology based on a health-centered approach.