Relationship Between Bender Gestalt Test Scores and Medical Success with Duodenal Ulcer Patients
- 1 January 1958
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Psychosomatic Medicine
- Vol. 20 (1) , 30-32
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00006842-195801000-00003
Abstract
The Bender-Gestalt test was used with duodenal ulcer patients to determine its effectiveness as an index of the patient''s response to medical therapy. The raw scores of 9 patients who had successfully managed their symptoms over a period of years, and those of a group of 9 patients who were considered medically intractable and for whom surgery was foreseen, did not overlap. A significant difference was also found between those intractable patients who respond well to surgery and those who experienced a recurrence of symptoms.Keywords
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