Aim of the research – determine the connection between physical self-education and mental health of schoolchildren. Subject of the research – schoolchildren who regularly practice physical self-education, schoolchildren who sporadically go in for sports and schoolchildren who do not go in for sports at all. The assumption of the research – schoolchildren who regularly practice physical self-education are of better mental health, are stress-resistant, and are able to concentrate for the raised aim. Goals of the research: 1. Pursue research of personal traits of schoolchildren practicing physical self-education; 2. Determine connection between physical self-education and mental health. Methodology of the research: 1. Analysis of scientific literature; 2. Survey. It is not easy to define physical self-education and mental health or evaluate their connection unambiguously, as there are lots of different opinions on this issue. The aim of the Master thesis was to view this problem from a certain perspective: scrutinize connections of physical self-education and mental health of schoolchildren. Having analyzed opinions of various authors on this topic, one can state that the majority of scientists confirm the assumption that physical self-education and physical load positively influence inner balance of a person and his/ her harmonious development. The performed research helped to determine that sports activities have a positive influence on physical health of a person only... [to full text]

Summary Mental health – it is mental and social wealth of person, that ensures proper physical, intellectual and emotional communication which doesn’t prevent the development of other people (Dictionary of Sport Terms, 2002). Mental health is defined by three fundamental components: sense of harmony, self-control, and stress level. Problem in question: Whether instruments of psychological influence are efficient to the development of students’ mental health while exercising? Hypothesis: we presume that instruments of psychological influence positively affect the students’, who play basketball, mental health. Object: Peculiarities of thirteen-year-old students’ who play basketball, mental health training using instruments of psychological influence. Goal of research: Identify the peculiarities of thirteen-year-old students’ who play basketball, mental health training using instruments of psychological influence. Tasks: Disclose the mental health of thirteen-year-old students, who play basketball, before the experiment and after its completion; evaluate the students’ sense of harmony before the experiment and after its completion; evaluate the level of students’ self-control before the experiment and after its completion; define the level of students’ stress before the experiment and after its completion. Results and findings: Results of mental health in control and experimental students’ groups statistically didn’t differ significantly (p>0.05) before experiment. Level of... [to full text]

Aim of the study: to evaluate teenagers mental health care needs and correspondence to their expectations. Methods: Participants were 15-16 years old (9-10 form) schoolchildren from Kaunas town and region secondary schools. Respondents were interviewed by anonymous questionnaire. We examined 1000 participants. The response was 80,8 percents, but 759 cases were analysed. There were used Epi-Data and SPSS 11.5 statystical programs to count the data. Chi-criteria and correlated analysis methods were used to ensure statistical reliability. Statistical conclusion was confidential at p £0,05. Results: Teenagers mental health conception and official mental health definitions were different. In qualitying mental health schoolchildren mostly emphasized inner shape; 21,6 percent associated it with reason, 10 percent- with behaviour and reaction to surroundings, 8 percents- brains and nervous activity. Some of respondents mixed up mental health concept with mental non-health and then they emphasized particular physical complaints, malfunction of nervous system and etc. The fifth (23 percent) of schoolchildren had various mental health complaints, 16,3 percent- problems in family, 12,8 percent- in school and 10,8 percent had difficulties in relations with friends. Teenagers didn’t attributed subjective problems to the problems group, which would be the reason to go to specialists. Girls used specialists favours more often as boys. Teenagers, who lived in region, had bigger needs... [to full text]

Psichinę sveikatą sudaro 2 poliai: negatyvus ir pozityvus. Negatyvi psichinė sveikata yra suprantama kaip psichologinis distresas ir psichikos sutrikimai, o pozityvios psichinės sveikatos ištekliais yra laikoma vidinė darna, savigarba ir gebėjimas tinkamai įveikti stresines situacijas. Tyrimo tikslas yra išanalizuoti profesionalios karo tarnybos (PKT) karių psichinės sveiktos ir jos išteklių ypatumus. Tyrimo metu buvo siekiama patikrinti 3 hipotezes: 1) PKT kariai turintys aukštesnę vidinę darną ir aukštesnę savigarbą pasižymi mažesniu psichologiniu distresu ir mažesniu nerimastingumu.2) PKT karių psichologinį distresą ir nerimastingumą įtakoja vidinės darnos ir savigarbos stiprumas. 3) PKT karių streso įveikų naudojimas priklauso nuo vidinės darnos ir savigarbos lygio. Tyrime dalyvavo 193 profesinės karo tarnybos karių iš Vilniaus m. ir Jonavos raj. dalinių. Didžiausią dalį tiriamųjų (90,2%, t.y. 174 karių) sudarė vyrai. PKT karių psichologinis distresas buvo matuojamas taikant D. Goldberg (2001) General Health Questionnaire (GHQ 28), nerimas ir nerimastingumas tirtas N.S. Endler, J.M. Edwards, R. Vitelli (1991) Endler Multidimensional Anxiety Scales (EMAS) klausimynu. Pozityvi PKT karių psichinė sveikata tirta naudojant A. Antonovsky (1995) vidinės darnos trumpą klausimyno variantą ir M. Rosenberg (1965) savigarbos klausimyną. PKT karių taikomų streso įveikų stilių ypatumai matuojami naudojant Ž. Grakausko ir G. Valicko (2006) lietuvišką streso įveikų vertinimo metodiką... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / The mental health combines two poles: negative and positive. Negative mental health is understood as psychological distress and mental disorder while positive mental health is sense of coherence, self-esteem and ability to cope with stressful situations. The purpose of this study is to analyze the mental health and its issues of military personnel. Three hypotheses are discussed: 1) Military personnel having better sense of coherence and more self-esteem show less psychological distress and are less trait anxiety. 2) Psychological distress and trait anxiety are impacted by the strength of sense of coherence and the strength of self-esteem of military personnel. 3) The way how military personnel use stress coping manners depends both on sense of coherence and self-esteem. 193 soldiers from Vilnius and the region Jonava were tested. Most of them were male (90,2%, it means 174 soldiers). The distress of military personnel was tested using D. Goldberg‘s (2001) The General Health Questionnaire (GHQ 28), state anxiety and trait anxiety with N.S. Endler‘s, J.M. Edward‘s, R. Vitelli‘s (1991) Endler Multidimensional Anxiety Scales (EMAS) questionnaire. The positive mental health was investigated using the short form of the sense of coherence questionnaire created by A. Antonovsky (1995) and the questionnaire of self-esteem composed by M. Rosenberg (1965). The Lithuanian version of the test created by Ž. Grakauskas and G. Valickas (2006) was used to measure the styles of stress coping... [to full text]

Darbe pristatomo tyrimo objektu pasirinkta bendrosios praktikos slaugytojų kompetencija, o iškelto tyrimo tikslas - ištirti bendrosios praktikos slaugytojų kompetenciją, prižiūrint pacientus, turinčius psichikos sveikatos problemų somatiniuose skyriuose. / This paper presents a research an object of which was the competence of general nurses and purpose of the research was to assess competence of general nurses taking care of patients with mental health problems in somatic hospital departments.

Tikslas: įvertinti profesinio ir laisvalaikio fizinio aktyvumo reikšmę streso ir įtampos darbe poveikiui vidutinio amžiaus dirbančių asmenų grupėje. Tyrimo objektas: laisvalaikio bei profesinio fizinio aktyvumo ir patiriamo streso darbe priklausomybė vidutinio amžiaus dirbančių asmenų grupėje. Hipotezė: laisvalaikiu fiziškai aktyvesni aukštesnės kvalifikacijos ir protinį darbą dirbantys asmenys; laisvalaikiu fiziškai aktyvesni asmenys patiria mažesnį streso ir įtampos poveikį darbe. Darbo uždaviniai: 1. Įvertinti laisvalaikio ir profesinį fizinį aktyvumą bei ryšius su socialiniais ir demografiniais rodikliais vidutinio amžiaus dirbančių asmenų grupėje. 2. Nustatyti ryšį tarp 30-60 m. asmenų profesinio ir laisvalaikio fizinio aktyvumo ir sveikatos nusiskundimų bei polinkio į priklausomybę alkoholiui sąsajas. 3. Atskleisti fizinio aktyvumo reikšmę streso ir įtampos darbe poveikiui 30-60 m. dirbančių asmenų grupėje. 4. Išskirti veiksnius, reikšmingai susijusius su laisvalaikio fiziniu aktyvumu ir įtampa darbe. Išvados: 1. Laisvalaikiu pakankamai fiziškai aktyvių tiriamųjų buvo 44,8 proc. Labiau fiziškai aktyvūs buvo vyrai (48,9 proc.) nei moterys (41,7 proc.; p>0,05) ir miesto (48,4 proc.) nei rajono (35,3 proc.; p<0,05) gyventojai. Laisvalaikio fizinis aktyvumas buvo tiesiogiai susijęs su išsilavinimu, pajamomis poreikiams patenkinti, aukštesne profesine kvalifikacija (p<0,05) ir atvirkščiai susijęs su amžiumi ir profesiniu fiziniu aktyvumu (p<0,05). 2. Tarp apklaustų... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / Subject – the relationships between occupational and leisure-time physical activity and stress experience at work in the middle-aged employees group. Aim of the study: to assess the influence of occupational and leisure-time physical activity on stress and job strain in the middle-aged employees group. Hypothesis: employees who are more physically active at leisure time are highly skilled and usually are working mental jobs; employees who are more physically active at leisure time experience lower impact of stress and job strain at work. Objectives: 1. Evaluate occupational and leisure-time physical activity and its associations with social and demographic indicators in the middle-aged employees group. 2. Determine the relationships between occupational, leisure-time physical activity, health complaints and alcohol abuse in people aged 30 to 60. 3. Reveal the value of physical activity on the impact of stress and job strain in the employees group aged 30 to 60. 4. Identify factors that are significantly associated with leisure-time physical activity and stress at work. Conclusions 1. Only 44.8% of the respondents were sufficiently physically active during leisure time. Higher proportions of sufficiently physically active respondents were determined in men (48.9 %) than women group (41.7 %, p>0.05) and in the urban (48.4 %) as compared to the rural district group (35.3 %, p<0.05). Leisure-time physical activity was directly related to higher education, sufficient income... [to full text]

Tyrimo hipotezė: skirtingos fizinio aktyvumo formos teigiamai veikia iki tol buvusių fiziškai neaktyvių moterų sveikatingumo parametrus: fizinį pajėgumą, gyvenimo kokybę, savo išvaizdos vertinimą ir nerimo lygį. Tyrimo objektas: skirtingų fizinio aktyvumo formų poveikis vidutinio amžiaus moterų fiziniam pajėgumui ir su sveikata susijusiai gyvenimo kokybei. Tikslas: nustatyti ištvermės ir jėgos ištvermės pratimų poveikį fiziškai neaktyvių vidutinio amžiaus moterų fiziniam pajėgumui ir su sveikata susijusiai gyvenimo kokybei. Uždaviniai: 1. Ištirti ištvermės ir jėgos ištvermės pratimų poveikį fiziškai neaktyvių vidutinio amžiaus moterų fiziniam pajėgumui. 2. Nustatyti ištvermės ir jėgos ištvermės pratimų poveikį fiziškai neaktyvių vidutinio amžiaus moterų su sveikata susijusiai gyvenimo kokybei. 3. Palyginti ištvermės ir jėgos ištvermės pratimų poveikį vidutinio amžiaus moterų fiziniam pajėgumui ir su sveikata susijusiai gyvenimo kokybei. Išvados: 1. Po fizinio aktyvumo intervencijos fizinio aktyvumo poveikio grupėse sumažėjo atropometrinių parametrų (kūno masės indeksas, liemens ir klubų apimtys, riebalų procentinė dalis) įverčiai (p<0,05) ir abejose grupėse padidėjo rankų ir krūtinės, pilvo, nugaros ir kojų raumenų jėga (p<0,05). Aerobinis pajėgumas ištvermės poveikio grupėje kilo (p<0,05), o jėgos ištvermės poveikio grupėje – sumažėjo (p<0,05), lyginant su pradiniais testavimo rezultatais. 2. Ištvermės ir jėgos ištvermės poveikio grupės tiriamosioms fizinio aktyvumo... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / Hypothesis of the research: different forms of physical activity have positive effect on various physical parameters of physically inactive women: physical fitness, health-related quality of life, body image and appearance and level of anxiety. The aim: to determine the effect of strengthening’sendurance and endurance-enhancing exercise on physical fitness and health-related quality of life inthe middle-aged physically inactive women groups. Objectives: 1. To analyze the effect of strengthening’s endurance and endurance-enhancing exercise on physical fitness in middle-aged physically inactive women groups. 2. To determine the effect of strengthening’s endurance and endurance-enhancing exercise on health-related quality of life inmiddle-aged physically inactive women groups. 3. To compare the effect of strengthening’s endurance and endurance-enhancing exercise on physical fitness and health-related quality of life in middle-aged physically inactive women groups. Conclusions: 1. After the intervention in both groups of physical exercise anthropometric parameters (body mass index, waist and hip circumference, fat percentage) have decreased (p<0.05), whereas arms, chest, abdomen, back and legs muscle strength has increased significantly p<0.05). In the group of endurance-enhancing exercise aerobic capability has increased (p<0.05), and in the group of strengthening’s endurance exercise it has decreased (p<0.05) in comparison to initial results of testing. 2. Physical... [to full text]