[The role of emotional-volitional traits in patients with ischemic heart disease in carrying out dietetic recommendations during long-term clinical observation].

The influence of subjective (individual) prerequisites on the possibility of long-term following anti-atherosclerotic diets by coronary patients was investigated. Basing on the examination of the patients they were divided into three groups: those who strictly kept the diet (I), patients who moderately violated the diet (II), and those who did not keep the diet at home (III). Specific psychological methods used in the study allowed differentiation of these groups of patients. A conclusion has been made on the relation between the capacity for keeping the diet and some psychological personality traits of coronary patients. The analysis of the results enabled the authors to reveal a complex of problems for prognosing the coronary patients' readiness to keep the diet at home. The data obtained may be conductive to a rise in the medicosocial adaptation of coronary patients to long-term diet therapy by means of directed psychotherapy.