V nastoyashchey rabote sdelana popytka kliniko-epidemiologicheskogo obsledovaniya kontingentov statsionarnykh i ambulatornykh meditsinskikh uchrezhdeniy g. Erevana: obshchesomaticheskoy bol'nitsy lechebno-reabilitatsionnogo profilya, diagnosticheskogo tsentra, trekh territorial'nykh poliklinik goroda, a takzhe tsentra psikhicheskogo zdorov'ya «Stress», patsienty kotorogo vystupali v kachestve kontrol'noy gruppy. Polucheny dannye, kharakterizuyushchie v opredelennoy mere epidemiologicheskuyu situatsiyu v strane, vyyavlena rasprostranennost' affektivnykh, nevroticheskikh i obuslovlennykh stressom psikhicheskikh rasstroystva i psikhopatologicheskikh sostoyaniy v somaticheskoy bol'nitse i ambulatornykh uchrezhdeniyakh, vydeleny nekotorye klinicheskie osobennosti etikh sostoyaniy. Vyyavleny nekotorye osobennosti i zakonomernosti formirovaniya rasstroystv depressivnogo spektra v obshchemeditsinskoy seti, a takzhe opredelennye vzaimootnosheniya mezhdu razlichnymi radikalami psikhicheskogoo statusa somaticheskikh i psikhicheskikh bol'nykh. Kniga prednaznachena dlya psikhiatrov i organizatorov zdravookhraneniya. Ona mozhet predstavlyat' takzhe interes dlya vrachey obshchikh meditsinskikh spetsial'nostey i semeynykh terapevtov.