PSYCHOLOGICAL DISORDERS IN PATIENTS WITH VIRAL HEPATITIS

It reviewed the literature data on changes in the psycho-emotional status of patients with chronic viral hepatitis. Shown that chronic hepatitis have a significant effect on the mental state of patients, with the severity of psychological disorders depends on the clinical laboratory and morphological characteristics of the disease. The information about the observable signs of socio-psychological maladjustment, raising the level of anxiety, symptoms of depression in patients with chronic hepatitis. Shows a higher risk of contracting hepatitis B virus to patients in a psychiatric hospital. It confirmed the importance of timely diagnosis and correction of mental disorders in patients with chronic hepatitis, as well as the need to examine individual characteristics and mental abnormalities that may act as factors causing risk behavior in these patients.