Types of attitude of women after radical mastektomy

Abstract

The investigation of some features of attitude type to the disease is an integral part of developing of the differentiated application of psychological and physical rehabilitation of patients of different nosology. The objective of the research is to identify features such as attitudes to the disease of women who underwent radical mastectomy. Methods applied: theoretical analysis and synthesis, sociological method, and method of mathematical statistics. Fifty women after radical mastectomy were involved in the study according to Madden. Types of attitude of relatively adequate adaptation, as well as those that are accompanied by symptoms of psychological maladjustment (intra-and inter- psychical) were revealed. An important place among of attitudes of mental maladjustment with intra-psychical has taken anxious, neurasthenic and diffuse type of response to the disease. At the maladjustment with inter-psychical orientation the presence of sensitive and egocentric types of attitudes towards the disease were found.