Psychological Dysadaptation in Patients with Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease: Review and Own Researches

Abstract

he article presents up-to-date data concerning psychosomatic problem in medicine, in particular world experience of studying disorders of psychological of adaptation in patients with gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), as well as own researches data. When using psychological tests, detection rate of anxiety and depression in patients with GERD was 100 and 91.2 %, respectively. Follow-up research studies revealed that presence of psychological dysadaptation in patients with GERD makes it impossible to achieve a stable remission of the underlying disease and necessitates appropriate correction.

Keywords

• gastroesophageal reflux disease
• mental disorders
• anxiety
• depression
• psychological dysadaptation