| Abstract: |
The intuitive perception that the renal transplanted
patients imagine painful threats and prospects about the future, led the authors to
perform a study, investigating their motivational dispositions and overcoming responses.
Material and methods: 3 samples of patients with over 3 years of dialysis were considered:
43 transplanted patients (TP), 26 dialysed patients (HD1), and 19 dialysed patients (HD2).
For the samples TP and HD1, the clinical inventories of self-concept and resolution of
problems by Vaz Serra were applied, and for TP and HD2, the Adjective Check List, by Gough
and Heilbrun.
Results and conclusions: After the analysis of the results, the authors conclude that the
transplanted patients are the ones who yield less to impulsivity and whose Ego projects
with greater assertiveness. In the dialysed patients, impulses become stronger and there
is lesser effectiveness, to which feelings of sadness and loss of self-esteem and identity
associated. The transplanted patients still differ from the dialysed ones, as they show
greater motivation and ambition regarding their own performance; they also differ in
relational aspects, due to greater reserve (lesser solicitude) and lesser heterosexual
assertiveness. Dependence and self depreciation also seem to continue in the
post-transplantation, as something atavic, brought from the dialysis, and which persists
for fear of losing the kidney and of returning to the machine. Due to their motivational
dispositions, the transplanted patients are not quite placed as if they were between the
dialysed patients and the normal healthy people, because they have their own identity and,
when dealing with their losses and difficulties, they often react by regressive forms of
behaviour which require adequate support. |
| Abstract: |
The goal of our study was to test, in a double-blind
trial, the treatment of the aggressivity with sultopride, with the assumption that this
drug would not interfere in the patient's alertness. We describe the pharmacological and
clinical profile of sultopride, specifying the motive that lead us to choose
propericiazine as the reference product.
In this study two homogeneous groups of patients with manifestations of aggressivity were
treated using a double-blind method. A significant decrease of the aggressive behavior
occurred in both groups during the fourteen-day study period.
Therapeutic effects, although similar for both drugs, showed a slight superiority in favor
of sultopride mainly due to a better tolerance; as a matter of the fact patients in that
group reported fewer side effects than those in the propericiazine group. |