[Psychodiagnostic studies in dialysis patients of a center and a limited care facility].

In order to find out how far center hemodialysis (ZD) and limited-care hemodialysis (LCD) influence adjustment and being of the afflicted persons, 21 ZD-patients and 19 LCD-patients were examined psychodiagnostically with the following tests: Rosenzweig Picture-Frustration Study, Taylor's Manifest Anxiety Scale (adapted to German conditions), and Freiburger Persönlichkeits-Inventar. By means of statistical analysis it could be shown that the hemodialysis patients do not present themselves to their fellow-men in accordance with their real thinking and feeling. This behaviour brings on the peril of deviating attitudes which can affect their vigour. The LDC-patients gave much more indications of autonomous self-responsibility than the ZD-patients did. Psychotherapeutic efforts primarily should counteract regressive tendencies.