Aus der Sicht der Betroffenen : Motivation zur Psychotherapie bei atopischem Ekzem

What is the motivation to psychotherapy of patients suffering from atopic eczema? 503 members of a self-help group answered 115 multiple-choice questions. Psychotherapy-motivation as an explaining construct was defined in terms of feeling bad, symptom-related support and initiative. Each of the three aspects was operationalized by psychometrically tested questions from the inventory. Explaining variables were skin-affections, allergic reactivity, atopic diathesis, reaction of socially relevant persons to the disease and to the patients' scratching behavior. Further variables were offers of palliatives, mastering and deflecting assistances. Path analysis showed, that quantitative skin-affections as well as the offer of mastering assistance determine the patients' psychotherapy-motivation.