[IMPACT OF TUBERCULOSIS INFECTION ON THE PSYCHOLOGICAL STATUS OF CHILDREN].

Eighty-nine children aged 10 to 14 years with various manifestations of tuberculosis infection were examined using the psychometric tests: Eysenck's personality questionnaire adapted for children, J. Taylor's manifest anxiety scale adapted by T. A. Nemchinova, and the correction test. The Kérdö vegetative index was calculated to determine sympathetic-parasympathetic influences on the regulatory mechanisms of autonomic functions. Tuberculosis infection was found to have no impact on personality directions, but introverts were more among first infected and ill children. The more pronounced manifestations of tuberculosis infection are, the lower neuroticism. is. In early tuberculosis infection, diminished mental activity is more evident and considerably surpassed autonomic disorders. During a tuberculosis process, autonomic imbalance has a sympathicotonic direction and most pronounced in the development of disease.