FIELD: medicine.
SUBSTANCE: invention can be used for diagnosing alexithymia in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) complicated with chronic cor pulmonale. That is ensured by evaluating clinical-anamnestic data, determining respiratory function, blood gas, and a patient's pulmonary hemodynamic status. An alexithymia value is calculated by the certain formula and used to state the presence or absence of alexithymia in the patient, or the presence of psychopathological borderline cases.
EFFECT: diagnosing alexithymia without using the known alexithymia scale leading to the higher clinical and preventive effectiveness and improved disease prognosis in the COPD patients.
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