Zdorenko L. Characteristic of Mental Working Capacity in Clean Up Workers of Consequences of the Chernobyl Accident

Mental working capacity in the remote period after the Chernobyl accident in liquidators with organic mental disorders (n=106), including patients who had been diagnosed with acute radiation sickness (n=48), was assessed with clinical, psychometric and psychophysiological methods. Mental working capacity is significantly reduced due to motivation disturbances as a result of personality, emotional-volitional and cognitive disorders against the background of organic brain damage of combined genesis. The level of mental working capacity in the remote period of acute radiation sickness is determined with its severity degree (36%), social-economic factors (27%), psychopathology (15%), somatoneurological pathology (13%) and age (9%). Social-economic factors are the main causes defining the reduction of mental working capacity in the examined liquidators (60%). It is necessary to create the state system of social-psychological rehabilitation for optimisation of mental working capacity in persons exposed as aresult of the Chernobyl accident.