FEATURES OF PSYCHO-EMOTIONAL ADAPTATION DURING PREPARING TO RADIOTHERAPY

Radiation therapy is a mandatory treatment tactic in almost 70 % of cancer patients, including those head and neck, accounting for about 15−20 %. The radiotherapy prescribing causes certain complications so its need increases the level anxiety stress, forms pessimistic perception prospects anticancer treatment. An additional stressor also myths radiation therapy, which can provoke refusal Therefore, an important task medical care at stage not only psychocorrection emotional sphere, but correction cognitive distortions, psychoeducation, formation satisfactory therapeutic alliance commitment to therapy. To study features psycho−emotional adaptation preparation patients with neck cancer, 60 were examined. determine status there used clinical method (survey, collection complaints anamnestic data), test differentiated self−assessment functional state "Feeling, activity, mood", "Distress Thermometer". It was found that during procedures 90 rate distress increased positively correlated mood". average indices according all scales mood" decreased. Criteria identified: compliance basic rules requirements related nutrition, hygiene, keeping regimen; timely qualitatively informing doctor changes patient's condition; quality relationships staff. concluded psychocorrectional work course selection main targets psychotherapeutic interventions. Key words: psychoemotional adaptation, psychooncology,