Jerzy A. Sobański, Katarzyna Klasa
Zmiany nasilenia objawów w okresie oczekiwania na leczenie  67
Pretherapy symptom level changes  67
Summary
Aim: Description of global neurotic symptom level present during pre-therapy waiting.
Material: Case records of 2589 patients containing two symptom checklists filled in before

treatment in a day-hospital. Method: Analysis of symptom change, by comparison of symptom

checklists "0" filled in whilst waiting for therapy - at first diagnostic ambulatory visit

and on the day of psychotherapy admission. Results: Change of global symptom level during

pre-therapy assessment and pre-therapy waiting were not large but they were composed of

frequent changes in both incidence and intensity of particular symptoms. On average only

40-60% of symptoms (the same) were present in both measurement points during pre-therapy

waiting. Similar rates of such changes were observed in women and men. Conclusions: Global

symptom changes among individuals waiting for therapy were in most cases relatively small.

However, in particular symptoms many different and very heterogenous transformations were

observed. Patterns of change were gender-independent in the global symptom intensity as well

as in the particular symptom rates.