Aim of the study: to survey pupils’ opinion regarding healthcare service organizing in boarding schools of Vilnius city. Objectives: to evaluate healthcare service organizing, to evaluate factors haveing influence in the relations between doctors and children; to compare health care service organizing between boarding schools of Vilnius city. Methods: a sample anonymous survey of 193 pupils aged between 10 and 18 was conducted. Results were compared between two surveyed boarding schools. SPSS statistics software (SPSS 10.0) was used to measure the statistical significance of the results. Results: School nurses play an important role in health care organizing within schools. Almost a half of pupils reported to have been registered with a doctor by school nurses. 84 % of younger pupils stated that nurses accompany them to the health centers. More than a half of pupils surveyed (53.9 %) indicated that average waiting time in health centre, prior to being admitted to the consulting-room, was between 10 to 20 minutes. The majority of pupils asserted that doctors have not provided them with accurate information regarding their health status; only 51 % of them believe that doctors would keep information about their health status in secret. Only 1 of ten children remarked, that doctor wasn’t attentive to him. Conclusions: Sufficient attention has been paid to the healthcare organization in Vilnius boarding schools, healthcare services have been provided in time, unfortunately... [to full text]

Narkotikų kontrolės ir narkomanijos prevencijos politiką įgyvendina narkotikų kontrolės departamentas, Vyriausybė tobulina teisinę bazę narkotikų prevencijos srityje, vykdomos visuomenės sveikatos priežiūros reformos kryptys, kuriomis siekiama daugiau dėmesio skirti sveikatos išsaugojimui, rizikos veiksnių poveikio sumažinimui. Prevencijos priemonės mokyklose glaudžiai siejasi su vaikų sveikos gyvensenos ugdymu – viena pagrindinių mokyklos sveikatos priežiūros specialistų veiklos krypčių. Per pastaruosius metus atlikta nemažai narkotikų paplitimo tarp mokinių tyrimų, vertinta ir prevencinės darbo grupės veikla. Nuo 2002 m. kasmet atliekamos mokyklose dirbančių slaugytojų veiklos studijos. Tačiau mokyklos sveikatos priežiūros specialisto veiklos tyrimas narkomanijos prevencijos aspektu dar nebuvo atliktas. Šio tyrimo tikslas: įvertinti mokyklos sveikatos priežiūros specialisto vykdomą veiklą narkomanijos prevencijoje. Tyrimas atliktas aštuoniose Lietuvos mokyklose apklausus 240 respondentų: 150 mokinių, 40 mokyklos darbo grupės narių ir 8 mokyklos sveikatos priežiūros specialistų, bei 42 mokyklos sveikatos priežiūros specialistai, dalyvavę Klaipėdos visuomenės sveikatos centro organizuotame seminare. Apklausai naudotos anoniminės anketos visoms trims respondentų grupėms, duomenys apdoroti panaudojant SPSS programinį paketą. Nustatyta, kad 11,3 proc. mokinių jau pabandė narkotinių medžiagų. Tyrimas atskleidė tokią tendenciją, kad 72,7 proc. mokinių nurodė, jog žino... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / Policy of narcotic control and drug addiction prevention is realised by Drug control department, Government continuously improves juridical basis of drug addiction prevention, different reforms in public health care activities are implemented, by the help of which it is seeked to pay greater attention to health retention as well as reduction of risk factors impact. Prevention activities at schools are tightly connected with children education about healthy lifestyle upbringing and these are one of the main tasks for school health care specialists. During last years quite many research works in the field of spread of narcotics have been performed. Impact of prevention workgroup was analysed as well. Since 2002 every year different research studies of school nurses activities are carried out. Despite of wide range of such research studies activities of school health care specialist in the field of drug addiction prevention haven‘t been evaluated. The goal of the study was to evaluate role of school health care specialist in the field of drug addiction prevention. The study was performed in eight schools of Lithuania. 240 respondents were involved: 150 schoolchildren, 40 school workgroup members, 8 school health care specialists and 42 school health care specialists, who attended the seminar organised by Klaipėda public health centre. The questionnaires were anonymous for all three respondent groups. Statistical analysis was performed using SPSS statistical package. It was... [to full text]