[Treatment of patients with pulmonary tuberculosis with regard to their personality traits and attitude to disease].

Experimental psychological examination was made in 149 patients with pulmonary tuberculosis. Most patients with tuberculosis were ascertained to have mental disorders which increase in chronic alcoholism or progress to chronic destructive tuberculosis. As high as 21.2% were found to show a harmonic attitude towards the disease. The other patients had inadequate disease responses in combination with a low sanitary education. Psychotherapy makes it possible to eliminate mental disorders, to form an adequate disease attitude and to keep to the necessary treatment duration. This enhances the efficiency of tuberculosis treatment.