Trachuk L. Individual psychological determinants increasing compliance in patients with arterial hypertension

In the thesis on the basis of integrative clinical-psychological, social-psychological and clinical analysis of patients compliance with the treatment of arterial hypertension we have made the theoretical generalization and proposed the new solution of the actual scientific task, which consists in determination of individual psychological determіnants of compliance and influence on them by the created personality-directed psychocorrective program to optimize the level of compliance. The individual-psychological predictors of poor adherence to antihypertensive therapy include the following personal characteristics of patients: a low level of intensity of attitude to health, internal type of subjective control, a low endurance to stress, strain of defense mechanisms, emotional instability and self-esteem, impulsivity, nonconformnism, tendency to independence, stability of attitudes, commitment to relying on their own experience, conflict behavior, rigidity, self-centeredness, introversion, the need for updating their own individuality, lack of deepening into serious problems. Designed psychocorrective program, aimed at transformation of lifestyle of patients and formation of a conscious aspiring to health, showed high efficacy.