Information analytical report on the results of "ROFES" diagnostics by Su Jouk method (psychophysiological constituent) based on the selection of diagnostics results of Olympic reserve and Secondary school students

Urgency of dependent state (alcoholism, narcomania, toxicomania) preventive-treatment problem is caused by the fact that in general narcomania has become national problem and became a serious threat for the whole state.

According to Russian Ministry of Health information, the average age when people start to take drugs is 15-17 and younger, i.e. schoolchildren. It is schools and public entertainment places for youth that are the main places of drugs spreading nowadays. Survey of older schoolchildren in autumn 2003 showed that almost 70% found out about drugs at school.

The efforts taken recently by the government and local authorities, including legislative bodies, more strict control at night clubs and other places of mass youth gathering had some results – drug spreading lowered a bit, especially of synthetic origin. However, there are still many things to be done for a significant change of the situation.

It must be also acknowledged that according to survey of young people the main reason of narcomania among youth is social environment, loss of moral values and lack of belief in a possibility of self-realisation – so called existential vacuum. Constant companion and kind of existential vacuum is boredom. Nowadays it causes much more problems than poverty. This can be explained by the fact that a need inspires a man to act in order to satisfy it while boredom leads to escape from reality, drinking, narcomania or antisocial behaviour.

Can sport be regarded as a variant of solution for this problem…?

Let us conduct a comparative analysis of ordinary school and Olympic reserve school students’ psychophysiological state.

Method. Diagnostics by the "ROFES" software and hardware device.

This method of body’s psychophysiological state express-diagnostics is integral assessment of body’s adaptation ability: it includes complex patophysiological characteristics and preliminary clinical diagnosis, provides for somatic status description and psychoemotional components.

Any behavioral response of a person is conditioned by motivating and stimulating aspects of personality. However, any incentive will be put in action only after it comes through the prism of person’s feelings and emotions. If the person can control this sphere in the most effective way, the incentive will be less disfigured.

The development of vital functions (body’s physiological structures) and system of physical characteristics (physical functions generated by body) during the personality formation occurs simultaneously with meridional structure formation which unites them into general structure of person’s integral individuality (Merlin V.S. "Integral Individuality").

The "ROFES" (recorder of function and emotional state assessment) diagnostics method (Patent of Russian Federation No.2202278 of 24.11.98) is aimed at detection of disadaptation syndrome. It allows to give qualitative and quantitative characteristic to the variants of adaptation irregularities, to assess the degree of body’s adaptation processes tension in a complex way, to interpret the nature of changes detected in terms of clinical medicine: subdepressive, astenic, vegetative abnormalities with further irregularities of personal sphere (asocial behaviour (suicide, narcomania), inclination to using different toxic matters etc.)

Results

Students of 10-11 grades of secondary school (410 people) and 10-11 grades of Olympic Reserve Sports School (ORSS) (451 people) were diagnosed.

By the following parameters and groups:

Psychoemotional status

BCFT - Body’s compensatory forces tension

Stress, poststress state
Resistance phase according to Selye’s general adaptation syndrome
Schoolchildren – 32%
Sportsmen – 7%
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Marginal state close BCFT
Schoolchildren – 7%
Sportsmen – 12%
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Strong emotional overtension. Resistance phase, closer to the phase of exhaustion according to Selye’s general adaptation syndrome.
Distress (emotional devastation). This state is possible: as normal before sleep; as indicator of defective recovery after sleep; as a result of disease (acute, subacute process)
Schoolchildren – 31%
Sportsmen – 2%
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Relative equilibrium
Emotional state emerges as a result of overcoming some obstacles or as a result of everyday fatigue after a calm day or before getting prepared (body mobilisation) to fulfill some task.
Schoolchildren – 17%
Sportsmen – 31%
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Adaptation Potential

It is the rate of body’s harmonious state as a balance of his inside states – physiological and mental - in respond to environmental conditions.

Functional State

It is the sum of medical (clinical) state’s components of the body as a living system when environmental conditions change – "homeostasis".

The results of vegeto-emotional tone (psychological feature, characterising person’s need to give and receive energy) state measurement’s expert assessment correspond to person’s extraversity-intraversity at the moment.

Higher vegeto-emotional tone (VET) shows the need to give energy and corresponds to extraverts. It is normal for choleric and sanguine persons and for children. For intraverts (melancholic and phlegmatic persons) it can be typical when their equilibrium is disturbed.

For this selection of schoolchildren and sport school students the results were the following:

With medium, closer to lower – boundary state between medium and lower vegeto-emotional tone, i.e. change from neutral state to the need to receive energy.
Schoolchildren – 20%
Sportsmen – 15%

By analysing the components of the "ROFES" diagnostics method’s mental constituents, such as loss of life’s aims, loss of life’s orientation, escape to illusions, long-lasting negative emotions, phobias, depressive states, sign of "boredom syndrome", excessive intellectual overload, inadequate evaluation of others, too high self-appraisal, stubbornness, troubles connected with relatives; other peculiarities of neurodynamics (inborn feature of baby’s nervous system, type of vegetative-nervous activity): emotional steadiness or susceptibility to emotional stress or emotional lethargy. Presence or lack of possibility for such positive features as persistence, realisation of person’s problems, self-affirmation as an activity aimed at strengthening person’s own constructive position, a sign of intellect sphere mobilisation, accumulated energy potential which does not find the way for realisation – all this gives an opportunity to reveal 3 risk groups out of this selection:

1. Children and teenagers which need rehabilitation of recovery, with low adaptation potential, in depressed state, body’s compensatory forces are tensed
   Schoolchildren – 32%
   Sportsmen – 0%
2. Children with boundary state, close to tension of body’s compensatory forces, with unsatisfactory adaptation potential and unsatisfactory functional state.
   Schoolchildren – 17%
   Sportsmen – 7%
3. Children and teenagers with strong emotional tension, close to exhaustion (psychoemotional status), state of distress (emotional devastation), asthenia syndrome, although with satisfactory adaptation potential, but with the loss of life’s aims, lowered ability to work, intellectual lethargy, abnormalities in cognitive activity, long-lasting negative emotions, phobias.
   Schoolchildren – 15%
   Sportsmen – 7%

Total conclusions on emotional state differential assessments

Schoolchildren:
Sign of intellectual lethargy with abnormalities in cognitive activity – 0,65
Realisation of person’s own problems – 0,55
Loss of life stability – 0,45
"Lowered hands" syndrome – 0,40
Negative emotions – 0,30

Sportsmen:
Presence of persistence – 0,55
Loss of life stability – 0,50
Long-lasting negative emotions – 0,30
Acceptance of external circumstances – 0,30

Thus, the examination showed that, considering peculiarities of juvenile age, worse social adaptation of children and teenager at school in general was observed.

The following measures are recommended:

1. Additional collection of anamnestic data to reveal causes and to treat further (first risk group)
2. Joining the efforts of social education specialists, psychological service in order to correct and recover psychoemotional and adaptation potential of students
3. Including in the rehabilitation program some sport activities: camping trips, rafting, festivals, competitions, such as "Mom, dad and me – sporty family", according to special federal program "Complex measures against using and illegal turnover of drugs 2002-2004".
4. Pedagogical staff and administration should pay attention to the effectiveness of conditions created for students in teaching and educational process.