SUMMARY Speciality of Kinesiology CORRELATIONS OF STRUCTURAL AND FUNCTIONAL PARAMETERS FOR HEALTHY AND MENTAL DEFECTIVE CHILDREN Author: Lorita Kulakauskienė. Supervisor: Prof., Habil. Dr. Alfonsas Vainoras. The work has been carried out at: Kaunas University of Medicine, Faculty of Public Health, Department of Kinesiology and Sport medicine, 2003-2005. The aim of the study: to determine correlations of structural and functional parameters for healthy and mental defective children. Objectives: 1. To compare groups of healthy and mental defective children together by means of measured structural and functional parameters. 2. To size up essential correlations of structural and functional parameters. 3. To examine possible reasons of different correlations between two groups of investigative children. 4. To look into organism, as a complex system, features in both groups of investigative children. The object of the study: two groups of children. One of them – 22 mental defective children (mean age – 14,9 years), and the other – 22 healthy children (mean age – 15,04 years). Methods of the study: anthropometry, measuring arterial blood pressure, cirthometry, skoliometry, electrocardiography and mathematical statistics methods. Results: Means of arterial blood pressure and electrocardiographical parameter aQRS were statistically significantly (p<0,05) more in healthy children group (S), but means of cirthometry parameter C_K and skoliometry parameter Sk_3 - in mental defective... [to full text]