[Study of the emotional-and-personality sphere in patients with psoriasis concurrent with chronic opisthorchiasis].

The study was undertaken to evaluate the emotional-and-personality sphere in patients with psoriasis concurrent with chronic opisthorchiasis (CO). A hundred and fifty patients with psoriasis concurrent with CO, 100 psoriatic patients without helminthiasis, 100 patients with CO, and 30 healthy individuals were examined. The SMOL test was used to evaluate the emotional-and-personality sphere. Clinical and psychological studies of patients with psoriasis alone and in combination with CO revealed unidirectional psychoemotional (mainly hypochondriacal) changes in patients in these groups. However, anxiety and hypochondriac disorders were clinically significant in patients with comorbidity (psoriasis + CO). This suggests that Opisthorchis invasion is of considerable importance in the genesis of these changes and requires medical correction of helminthiasis.