Prezentując wyniki powyższego badania autor uwydatnia transformację
obrazu zaburzeń nerwicowych w okresie oczekiwania na leczenie. Dotyczy ona zarówno pojawiania się nowych, znikania istniejących objawów
nerwicowych, jak również globalnej zmiany ich nasilenia, mimo braku
w tym okresie oddziaływań terapeutycznych.Aim, Description o f global neurotic symptom level present during pre-therapy waiting.
Material: Case records of 2589 patients containing two symptom checklists filled in
before treatment in a day-hospital.
Method. Analysis of symptom change, by comparison of symptom checklists
"0" filled in whilst waiting for therapy - at first diagnostic ambulatory visit and on
the day of psychotherapy admission.
Results. Change of global symptom level during pre-therapy assessment and
pre-therapy waiting were not large but they were composed of frequent changes in
both incidence and intensity of particular symptoms. On average only 40-60% of
symptoms (the same) were present in both measurement points during pre-therapy
waiting. Similar rates of such changes were observed in women and men.
Conclusions. Global symptom changes among individuals waiting for therapy
were in most cases relatively small. However, in particular symptoms many different
and very heterogenous transformations were observed. Patterns of change were
gender-independent in the global symptom intensity as well as in the particular
