Abstract

RODRIGUEZ ROMERO, Armando; RAMOS GONZALEZ, Noslando; IBANEZ MORALES, Marianela  and  MUNOZ ESTRADA, Lisete. Bilateral senile cataract: a pre- and postoperavitve psychological study. Rev Cubana Oftalmol [online]. 2003, vol.16, n.2, pp. 0-0. ISSN 1561-3070.

A psychological comparative study was conducted among 50 patients with senile bilareral cataract before and after the operation from January to December, 1999, according to the following variables: age, educational level and marital status. The age group 70-79, the elementary educational level and the married patients predominated. The psychopathological symptoms and the distribution according to psychiatric disorders decreased among those with anxiety and sadness from 42 to 7 patients, respectively, once they were operated on of cataract and their vision was reestablished.

Keywords : CATARACT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PREOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE.