[The possibilities of preventing hypertension and the characteristics of the psychological set for its management in rural inhabitants].

At examination of 360 hypertensive subjects living in rural areas it was found that the examinees were quite indifferent to their health. This is explained by poor knowledge of hypertension and its complications, inadequacy of the patients psychophysical condition, lack of medical prevention activity. A questionnaire survey of the physicians-in-charge revealed that 24% of them were unaware of the risk factors, 68% did not care for relevant correction, though they had diagnosed the risk factors in themselves. In self-rating the physicians were not confident, showed indifference to own health and future. The authors believe that the condition of the patients was in many respects due to social and psychological dysadaptation of their physicians who had lost their interest in preventive medicine.