Research of patients with alcohol dependence and their correction, taking into account gender aspects

Abstract

The aim of the research is to study emotional-personal and cognitive disorders in patients with alcohol dependence and their psychocorrection, considering gender aspects. The tasks of the research are: to study the personal characteristics of patients with alcohol dependence, to identify specific emotional and personal characteristics for patients, depending on gender; compare cognitive functions in alcohol dependence, considering gender characteristics; to determine the factors influencing the formation and development of alcohol dependence; develop recommendations for psychoprophylactic effects in the complex rehabilitation of patients, depending on gender characteristics. The object of the research were 140 people with alcohol addiction, who were treated at the Republican Special Scientific and Practical Medical Center for Narcology. The scientific novelty of the research:deformation of the psychological characteristics of women under the influence of alcohol occurs according to the masculine type, and the personality of men changes towards an increase of feminine traits; in patients with alcoholism were found gender differences in the form that in women there are a deterioration in the processes of short-term memory, on the other hand in men usually there are a violation of attention; proved the possibility of early psychoprophylaxis of alcohol dependence on the basis of clinical and socio-biological factors; pathocharacterologically substantiated differential approach to psychotherapy in patients with alcohol dependence, taking into account gender characteristics. Implementation of the clinical research results.This аalgorithm for the psychotherapeutic correction of emotional-personal disorders in patients with alcoholismcan increase the effectiveness of the treatment of patients with alcohol dependence by using psychopharmacotherapy. The introduction of research results into clinical practice has made it possible to reduce the level of relapses and increase the effectiveness of the treatment of alcohol dependence in patients.