Darbo tikslas: įvertinti slaugytojų ir šeimos gydytojų požiūrį į komandinį darbą ir jo skirtumus privačiose ir viešosiose asmens sveikatos priežiūros įstaigose. Tyrimo metodika: Tyrimo metu apklausta 342 Kauno PASP įstaigų šeimos gydytojai ir slaugytojai (atsako dažnis 76,0 proc.). Statistinė duomenų analizė atlikta naudojantis SPSS statistiniu paketu (20.0 versija). Hipotezės apie požymių priklausomybes buvo tikrinamos naudojant chi kvadrato (χ²) ir z kriterijus. Skirtumas laikytas reikšmingu, kai p < 0,05. Rezultatai: Dauguma apklaustųjų (77,7 proc.) pritaria komandiniam darbui. Dažniausiai respondentams komanda – tai bendras tikslas, pasitikėjimas vieni kitais, tiksliai atliekantys darbą nariai. Dauguma apklaustųjų nurodė, jog jų komandos veiklą inicijuoja organizacijos vadovas, o labiausiai reikalingu pirminės sveikatos priežiūros specialistų komandos nariu 96,4 proc. tyrimo dalyvių pasirinko šeimos gydytoją. Daugiau nei pusė apklaustųjų pažymėjo, jog didesnė atsakomybė gula gydytojų pečius. Dauguma respondentų žinojo efektyvaus komandinio darbo principus bei padedančius vystytis komandiniam darbui veiksnius, tačiau kaip trukdantį veiksnį nurodė, konkurenciją tarp kolegų. Respondentų nuomonė apie komandinį darbą skyrėsi priklausomai nuo socialinių demografinių veiksnių, pareigų, darbovietės, kurioje dirba rūšies. Nustatyta, jog šeimos gydytojams labiau nei slaugytojoms komandoje svarbūs maksimaliai geri rezultatai. Didesnė dalis šeimos gydytojų negu slaugytojų tik iš... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / Aim of the study – to assess nurses and family physicians approach to teamwork and the differences between private and public health care institutions. Methods: The study involved 342 family physicians and nurses (response rate 76.0 percent) working in Kaunas city primary health care institution. Statistical data analysis has been done by SPSS 20.0 statistical package. Hypotheses about dependency of features were checked by calculation of χ2 criteria, z criteria. The difference was considered significant when p<0.05. Results: The majority of respondents (77.7 percent) agreed that teamwork is better than the individual. In most cases, respondents identified the team as a general purpose, trust of each other and as a team members precisely conducting the work. The majority of respondents indicated that their team activity is initiated by the head of the organization. 96.4 percent of research participants chose the family doctor as the most needed primary care team member. More than half of the respondents noted that the family doctors have the greater responsibility. The majority of respondents knew the principles of effective teamwork and factors of developing teamwork, but as an interfering factor indicated the competition between colleagues. Respondent’s opinion about teamwork differed depending on the socio-demographic factors, duties and working place. A statistically significantly greater proportion of family doctors than nurses said that maximum good results are... [to full text]

Darbo tikslas: Atskleisti N ir M sveikatos priežiūros įstaigų darbuotojų nuomonę apie pasidalintą lyderystę ir pasidalintos lyderystės modelio įgyvendinimo galimybes. Uždaviniai: 1. Įvertinti N ir M sveikatos priežiūros įstaigų darbuotojų ir vadovo požiūrį į pasidalintą lyderystę. 2. Nustatyti pasidalintos lyderystės modelio įgyvendinimo galimybes N ir M sveikatos priežiūros įstaigose. 3. Palyginti N ir M sveikatos priežiūros įstaigų darbuotojų nuomones dėl pasidalintos lyderystės modelio įgyvendinimo galimybių. Tyrimo metodika. 2014 m. balandžio mėnesį buvo išdalintos 134 anoniminės anketos dviejų sveikatos priežiūros įstaigų darbuotojams; atsako dažnis – 70,14 proc. Siekiant išsiaiškinti dviejų sveikatos priežiūros įstaigų darbuotojų nuomonę apie pasidalintą lyderystę ir jos įgyvendinimo galimybes, buvo pasirinktas kiekybinio ir kokybinio tyrimo metodų derinys. Interviu atliktas norint gauti išsamesnius duomenis apie tiriamą reiškinį. Statistinei duomenų analizei naudota SPSS 22.0 programa, statistinės duomenų analizės grafiniam atvaizdavimui – MS Excel 2007 programa. Rezultatai. Tyrime dalyvavo 22 privačios sveikatos priežiūros įstaigos darbuotojai ir jų vadovas ir 72 valstybinės įstaigos darbuotojai ir 6 vadovai. Laisvės priimti sprendimus savarankiškai savo kompetencijos ribose statistiškai reikšmingai daugiau (p=0,002) turi privačioje gydymo įstaigoje dirbantys specialistai (M=2,63) lyginant su valstybinės įstaigos darbuotojais (M=1,97). Valstybinėje gydymo įstaigoje... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / Aim of the study: To explore attitudes towards distributed leadership and implementation opportunities of distributed leadership model among employees from two different health care organizations. Objectives: 1. To evaluate attitudes towards distributed leadership among employees and their chief working in two different health care organizations. 2. To determine implementation opportunities of distributed leadership model in two different health care organizations. 3. To compare attitudes towards implementation opportunities of distributed leadership model among employees from two different health care organizations. Methods. 134 anonymous questionnaires were distributed in April 2014 for employees from two different health care organizations; response rate – 70.14 % (n=94). In order to study attitudes towards distributed leadership and implementation opportunities of distributed leadership model among employees both quantitative and qualitative methods were used. In order to achieve the more precise data about the examined phenomenon the interview was performed. For statistical data analysis SPSS 22.0 program was used. For the graphical representation of the statistical data analysis MS Excel 2007 was used. Results. Overall 22 employees and their chief of a private health care organization and 72 employees and 6 chiefs of a general hospital participated in the survey. Employees from a private health care organization have significantly more freedom (p=0.002) in adopting... [to full text]

Aim of the study. To assess quality of ambulatory health care services in terms of the patient in accordance with patients’ attitude in the aspects of accessibility, information supply and satisfaction in services. Methods. Object of the research – Parents of the patients and their juridical representatives of the ambulatory consultative department of the public institution Children hospital of Klaipeda city. Research method – anonymous questionnaire inquiry. 502 respondents were questioned. Methods of the statistical analysis – statistical significance of data was measured by the criteria c2, number of the freedom degree (df) and the statistical significance. When the features were analyzed referring to other indexes, differences were found as statistically significant because the significance level p<0,05. Results. The best part of respondents comes to the specialist according to the time indicated in the coupon. Most of respondents, came without the coupon from district or other town, get to the specialist for the consultation at the same day. Most of respondents take up to 5 minutes at the registrar and up to 15 minutes by the doctor’s surgery. The best part of respondents was looking forward the consultation of the specialist for more than 2 weeks; the longest rows are at ophthalmologist, cardioreumatologist and orthopedist-traumatologist. It is estimated that as the acceptance to the specialist lasts longer and longer, more and more respondents say that the doctor... [to full text]

Mokykloje susikerta visuomenės ir asmens sveikatos priežiūros sferoms priskiriamos veiklos sritys. Neaišku, ar dabartinis mokyklos visuomenės sveikatos priežiūros specialistas yra pasirengęs įgyvendinti šiuos uždavinius. Neįvertinta, kokią nuomonę apie šią sistemą turi mokinių tėvai. Darbo tikslas: įvertinti mokyklų sveikatos priežiūros darbuotojų bei mokinių tėvų požiūrį į mokinių sveikatos priežiūros reformą mokyklose. Darbo uždaviniai: 1. Įvertinti mokyklų sveikatos priežiūros darbuotojų požiūrį į vykstančią mokinių sveikatos priežiūros reformą mokyklose. 2. Palyginti Šiaulių miesto ir rajono sveikatos priežiūros specialistų požiūrį į vykstančią mokinių sveikatos priežiūros reformą mokyklose. 3. Įvertinti mokinių tėvų požiūrį į vykstančią mokinių sveikatos priežiūros reformą mokyklose. Metodika: 2006 m. atlikta Šiaulių miesto ir rajono mokyklų sveikatos priežiūros specialisčių anoniminė anketinė apklausa. Apklaustos 56 Šiaulių miesto ir rajono mokyklose dirbančios sveikatos priežiūros specialistės. Vertinant mokinių tėvų požiūrį į mokinių sveikatos priežiūros reformą atlikta trijų Šiaulių miesto vidurinių mokyklų 4, 8, 11 klasių mokinių tėvų anoniminė anketinė apklausa. Anketų grįžtamumas buvo 81,7 proc. (343 iš 420 anketų). Respondentų anketiniai duomenys buvo analizuojami naudojant kompiuterinį SPSS 10.03 versijos statistinį paketą. Rezultatai: Beveik pusė (41,1 proc.) mokyklų sveikatos priežiūros specialisčių mokinių sveikatos priežiūros reformai mokyklose pritarė, 2... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / School is the place where responsibilities of individual and public health care activities overlap. It is not clear, however, if public health specialists at schools are ready to take all required responsibilities. The opinion of student parents about this system has not been evaluated either. Goal: to evaluate the attitude of school health care providers and student parents towards health care reform at schools. Tasks: 1. To evaluate the attitude of school health care providers towards the ongoing health care reform at schools. 2. To compare the attitudes of school health care specialists in the city and district of Siauliai towards the ongoing student health care reform at schools. 3. To evaluate the attitude of student parents towards the ongoing student health care reform at schools. Methods: an anonymous survey of school health care specialists was carried out in the city of Siauliai and its’ district in the year 2006. 56 health care specialists working at Siauliai city and district schools were questioned. For evaluation of parents’ attitude towards health care reform, parents of 4th, 8th and 11th year students were anonymously questioned at three secondary schools in the city of Siauliai. The response rate among parents was 81.7% (343 out of 420 ). Version 10.03 of SPSS statistical software package was used to analyze the collected survey data. Results: nearly a half (41.1%) of school health care specialists agreed with the reform, 21.4% opposed it against, 37... [to full text]

Management of Public Health The assessment of patients right to choose primary health care institution in the context of competition Simona Stulpinaitytė Supervisor Prof., dr. Irayda Jakušovaitė Department of Social Medicine, Faculty of Public Health, Kaunas University of Medicine. Kaunas; 2005. 65 p. Aim of the study. To assess and compare patients possibility to use their right to choose primary health care institutions in the context of competition. Objectives. 1) To assess factors who determine the choice of private or public primary health care institution; 2) To compare patients opinion about services that are provided in public and private health care institutions; 3) To compare ethical problems in healh care in micro (doctor – pacient) level in public and private health care institutions. Methods. During the survey there were questioned 380 patients at the public and private health care institutions in Garliava. Response rate in public health care institutions was 81% and in private health care institution it was 84%. Statistical analysis was carried out using statistical package for social sciences - SPSS 11.5 for Windows. Associations between the variables were tested by Chi squared. Patients answers under provided services in public and private health care institutions were analyzed by measuring means that were compared using the Stujdent test (t). Significance level (p) less than 0,05 was considered as statistically significant (p<0,05). Results. The most... [to full text]

Aim of the study: to evaluate competence of school health care specialists in Kaunas. Objectives: 1. to evaluate professional competence; 2. to evaluate personal and social competence; 3. to determine the factors related to competence evaluation. Methods: The object of the research – competence of school health care specialists. Three levels of competence – professional, personal and social – are evaluated. Methods – 1. review of scientific literature; 2. juridical paper analysis; 3. questionnaire survey; 4. statistical data analysis (Spearman correlation coefficient, t – test, descriptive statistics. Results: The analysis of professional knowledge self-assessment of separate functions showed that 10 functions out of 17 were evaluated by 4 points and over. Total evaluation of knowledge of all 17 functions was 67,9±8,8 points out of 85 points possible. The analysis of professional skills self-assessment showed that skills of 9 functions out of 17 were evaluated by 4 points and over. Total evaluation of professional skills was 64,6±10,2 points out of 85 points possible. The evaluation of personal competence showed that respondents gave 4 points and over to 3 personal features out of 8 features possible. Total evaluation of personal competence was 31,7±4,3 points out of 40 points possible. The analysis of social competence evaluation showed that 2 out of 5 social features were evaluated by 4 points and over. Total evaluation of social competence reached 19,5±2,7... [to full text]

SUMMARY With changing public attitude to health and health care, health indicators and health care priorities are changing too. This situation is increasing special demands for health care system and for schoolchildren health care in schools too. Health care situation in schools has changed, because become popular to think that school was responsible for schoolchildren health education but not for their treatment (Vienonen, Springett, 1998/1999). Health indicators of children and young people are going lower (Juskelienė, Kalibatas, 2003). We have to pay a big attention to children and youth health service. Aim of study – to analyze school nurses view of schoolchildren health care and it‘s developing possibilities. Objectives: 1. To reveal schoolchildren health problems in a view or school nurses. 2. To analyze school nurses problems in a process of their work. 3. To present schoolchildren health care developing possibilities/ways. Methods. This research methodology consists of theoretical analysis (scientific literature and documents) and written questionnaire with quantitative data analysis. The questionnaire was answered by 202 school nurses from the biggest Lithuania cities (Vilnius, Kaunas, Klaipeda, Siauliai, Panevezys) schools. The written questionnaire was analyzed using descriptive statistics methods, counting average of respondents opinion, discriminantive analysis. The SPSS 12.0 (Statistical Package for Social Sciences) was using for data analysis. Results... [to full text]

Darbo tikslas - Ištirti mieto ir kaimo pirminės sveikatos priežiūros centrų teikiamų paslaugų prieinamumą pacientų požiūriu. Darbo uždaviniai:1) Ištirti pacientų pasitenkinimą teikiamomis pirminiuose sveikatos priežiūros centrų paslaugomis; 2) Nustatyti veiksnius, turėjusius įtakos nepakankamam sveikatos priežiūros paslaugų prieinamumui. 3) Palyginti kaimo ir miesto pirminių sveikatos priežiūros centrų paslaugų prieinamumą pacientų požiūriu. 4) Pateikti praktines rekomendacija šių centrų darbo kokybei pagerinti. Tyrimo metodika. 2007 metų sausio 3 – balandžio 15 dienomis Kauno Centro poliklinikoje ir Simno poliklinikoje Alytaus rajone vyko anoniminė anketinė apklausa. Jos metu apklausta 510 pacientų, kurie laukė eilė pas savo šeimos gydytoją. Statistinė duomenų analizė buvo atliekama naudojant kompiuterinį paketą SPSS 10, 0 versijos statistinį duomenų analizės paketą bei Excel duomenų analizės paketą. Skirtumai buvo laikomi statistikai patikimi kai apskaičiuotoji p reikšmė neviršijo 0,05. Rezultatai. 45 proc. respondentų buvo patenkinti gydytojo teikiama pagalba. Dažniausios nepasitenkinimo priežastys gydytojo darbu buvotos, jog reikėjo ilgai laukti, kol pateko pas gydytoją (58 proc.), nebuvo reikalingų gydytojų – specialistų PSP įstaigoje(57 proc.) bei nepakankamai suteikė informacijos apie gydymosi galimybes (56 proc.), sveikatos būklę bei gydymą (51 proc.). Dauguma tyrime dalyvavusių pacientų buvo nepatenkinti PSP teikiamomis paslaugomis. Juos vargino eilės prie... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / Aim. To evaluate accessibility, satisfaction on patients’ quality of health services in primary health care centers in rural and urban settings in Lithuania. Research objectives were as following: 1) to establish patient’s satisfaction in primary health care centers; 2) to identify what factors affects the poor accessibility to health care; 3) to compare opinion, attitudes of patients on health care services in urban and rural settings. Methods. Two samples of respondents (patients of one primary health care center in small rural town Simnas and one in big city Kaunas) were selected. Anonymous questionnaire was filled in by 308 patients in Simnas (Primary Health care Centre) and 202 in Kaunas (Central Policlinic), response rate was 77% and 26%, respectively. Questionnaire form was developed by the authors has covered 31 question on different issues of quality of health care services: health status and reasons of visit to health care center; different issues on accessibility to health services (waiting time, registration for services, transportation and distance), satisfaction by competencies of physician, reasons of dissatisfaction, satisfaction by services provided by the health care institution. SPSS 10,0 and Excel statistical packages were used for making statistical data anlysis. Statistically significant difference was established when p<0,05. Results. 45 % of respondents were satisfied by the competencies of their family doctors. 58% of patients were not satisfied by... [to full text]

Darbo tikslas. Įvertinti šeimos gydytojų požiūrį į akušerinės – ginekologinės pagalbos paslaugas, teikiamas pirminėje sveikatos priežiūros grandyje. Uždaviniai. 1. Įvertinti šeimos gydytojų požiūrį į akušerinės – ginekologinės pagalbos organizavimo pokyčius. 2. Nustatyti šeimos gydytojų teikiamų akušerinės – ginekologinės pagalbos paslaugų apimtį pirminėje sveikatos priežiūros grandyje. 3. Nustatyti problemas, su kuriomis susiduria šeimos gydytojai, teikdami akušerinės – ginekologinės pagalbos paslaugas savo bendruomenės moterims. Tyrimo metodika. Tyrimo objektas: Kauno mieste dirbančių šeimos gydytojų požiūris į jų teikiamas akušerinės – ginekologinės pagalbos paslaugas. Tyrimo metodai: Anoniminė anketinė šeimos gydytojų apklausa. Anketa išplatinta visiems Kauno miesto šeimos gydytojams (n = 220). Atsakas – 90,9 proc. Statistinė duomenų analizė atlikta SPSS – 13 programa. Rezultatai. Moterų piktybinių navikų prevencijos vykdymo ir moterų raštingumo lytinės higienos ir šeimos planavimo klausimais priskyrimą šeimos medicinos institucijai teigiamai vertino 96 proc. visų respondentų, nėščiųjų stebėsenos - 58 proc., ginekologinių paslaugų - 64 proc. Privačiose pirminės sveikatos priežiūros įstaigose ( PSPĮ) dirbančių šeimos gydytojų teikiamų akušerinių – ginekologinių paslaugų apimtis (išskyrus klimakterinių simptomų diagnostiką) yra didesnė nei VŠĮ dirbančių šeimos gydytojų. Statistiškai reikšmingi skirtumai nustatyti teikiant šias paslaugas: tepinėlio iš gimdos kaklelio... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / Aim of the study. To evaluate family physicians’ attitudes towards obstetric-gynecological services provided in primary health care settings. Objectives. 1. To evaluate family physicians’ attitudes towards changes in the organization of obstetric-gynecological servises. 2. To determine the extent of obstetric-gynecological services provided by family physicians in primary health care level. 3. To identify the problems family physicians encounter when providing obstetric-gynecological services . Methods. Anonymous questionnaire-based survey of family physicians was carried out in Kaunas city (n = 220). The response rate was 90.9%. Statistical data analysis was performed using SPSS v.13 software package. Results. The attribution of cancer prevention among women and women’s literacy in sexual hygiene- and family planning-related issues to the institution of family medicine was positively evaluated by 96% of respondents, the attribution of the monitoring of pregnant women – by 58% and the attribution of gynecological services – by 64% of respondents. The extent of obstetric-gynecological services (except for the diagnostics of menopausal symptoms) provided by family physicians working in private primary health care institutions (PHCI) exceeded that provided by family physicians working in public PHCI. Statistically significant differences were detected in the provision of the following services: cervical smear (a service provided by 82.2% of family physicians in private... [to full text]

Aim of the study – to assess the implementation of the right to health information of pregnant women and to analyze the differences of its practice between services of general practitioners and obstetricians - gynecologists. Methods. The anonymous survey of women within the third trimester of pregnancy performed since August to December 2004. A sample included 120 pregnant women who were consulted by the general practitioners in the Family Clinics of Kaunas University of Medicine and 124 pregnant women within the consultations with obstetricians - gynecologists in maternity clinic of Dainava health center. Respectively, the response rate was 80% (N=96) in Family Clinics and 82.3% (N=102) in Dainava health center. The right to health information of the pregnant women was evaluated accordingly to actual Lithuanian laws. Results. Less than half of respondents (48.5%) acknowledged the Law on Patients’ Rights and the Reimbursement of Harm. The half of respondents were familiar with ability to copy their medical documents, nearly half of respondents were in part familiar about available services and opportunities to use it. One of four respondents indicated as unsatisfied with medical information during the consultations, while feeling the lack of proper information provided by physicians and rare negotiations about health examination and procedures. One of three respondents stated that physician presented them only the most important aspects of their pregnancy and health status... [to full text]