[The mental effects of chronic venous disease. Assessment by means of the Machover human figure test, Cattel anxiety test and Rosenzweig frustration test].

On the basis of routine clinical observations of mental stress, mainly of anxiety and depressive type, in the everyday treatment of chronic vascular disease, an attempt has been made to obtain a more strictly scientific assessment in relation to age, profession, admittance to hospital, degree of invalidity and immobility, etc. of two groups of patients with similar characteristics, one with chronic phlebopathy and a control group suffering from traumas of the lower extremities and their sequelae. Following intensive, highly informative conversations, the evaluation was made by means of the Machover human figure test which showed greater aggressiveness among the phlebopathy patients than the controls, the Cattel anxiety test (I.P.A.T.) which showed a marked prevalence of concealed anxiety in phlebopathy patients, and the Rosenzweig frustration test which revealed no significant differences between the groups. The data obtained were evaluated by statistical analysis with the Student test and Pearson's x test and results are reported.