[Impact of familial and interpersonal attitudes towards the efficiency of treatment for pulmonary tuberculosis in mentally ill patients].

The paper describes the influence of socially significant factors, such as a family, children, interpersonal attitudes, and relatives' support, on the course of a tuberculous process in the mentally ill patients long receiving hospital treatment. Positive changes in a tuberculous process are favored by frequent visits of patients, a personal contact of relatives with them, a warm kind attitude of patients towards their relatives and people. The paper shows it necessary to implement educational programs among relatives and rehabilitative and psychocorrective measures with patients, the objective of which is to make and maintain the close and interacting contact - physician-relative-patient, which causes positive changes in the course of pulmonary tuberculosis in mentally ill patients.