[The effect of the characteristics of maternal psychological adaptation on the outcome of labor].

The authors analyze the effect of psychologic adaptation of 108 pregnant women to the clinical course of their labor. Psychologic adaptation of pregnant women was assessed by the method of comprehensive personality analysis (the adapted variant of the Minnesota personality questionnaire). Two groups of women were distinguished: Group 1, 30 women (27.7%) with effective psychologic adaptation and Group 2, 78 women (72.3%) with disordered psychologic adaptation abilities. Disco-ordination of the uterine contractions (primary and secondary uterine inertia, early rupture of amniotic membranes, abnormal preliminary period), fetal and neonatal hypoxia, injuries to the soft tissues of the birth routes were more often observed in Group 2 women than in Group 1.