Differential Emotions and the Level of Social Frustration in Alcohol-Abused Patients with Psoriasis
Introduction. Numerous studies indicate the conjugation of somatic and psychological components in the pathogenesis of psoriasis and alcohol dependence. Both diseases affect patients social adaptation level, reducing quality of life and causing a stable feeling of emotional disharmony and social frustration. Purpose. To study the differential emotions and the level of social frustration in alcohol abused patients with psoriasis in order to improve the system of medical care, social rehabilitation and improve patients with psoriasis quality of life. Materials and methods. 55 people were examined in the City Clinical Skin and Venereal Diseases Clinic and in the City Clinical Narcological Dispensary. The analysis of differential emotions and the level of social frustration was carried out using clinical methods (clinical examination, interviewing and questioning; the area and severity of psoriatic lesions were determined using the PASI index), psychodiagnostic methods (The Michigan Alcohol Screening Test, "Emotional satisfaction in family" scale, diagnosis of the level of social frustration, the "Differential Emotion Scale") and statistical methods (the results of the studies were statistically processed using the Mann - Whitney U-test). Results. Socio-psychological malfunction was revealed in the group of alcohol abused patients with psoriasis. The results of the study confirm the need to include a psychotherapeutic component in treatment of patients with psoriasis, in particular, for those who have alcohol abuse.