SUMMARY Management of Public Health Teenagers psychological problems and turn for self – harm. Jurgita Čiuvašovienė Supervisor Nida Žemaitienė, Dr. Sc. Assoc. Prof. Department of Preventive Medicine. Faculty of Public Health, Kaunas University of Medicine. – Kaunas, 2005. – P.75 Aim of the study. To find out the psychological burden, experienced by teenagers, aged 15-16 and the reasons of bent for self-harm. Methods. The was carried out an anonymous questionnaire. 480 teenagers, aged 15-16 from Kaunas, Klaipėda and Jurbarkas, took part in the research. We‘ve used for the research Lifestale and coping questionare, which was created in the Oxford University. Microsoft Excel, SPSS 11,0 for Windows computer programs has been used to analyse the research data. Statistically reliable results are those, when p<0,05, P=95 percent. Results. According to the research data, deliberately harm themselves 3,96 % of all questioned teenagers. This data just slightly differs from the other research data (from 1509 teenagers, aged 15-16, deliberately harm themselves, as the average, 6,3% of teenagers, Ystgaard M., Reiholdt P., Husby J. 2002). The main ways of teenagers self-harm are cutting, drinking medicine by huge, non-therapical doses, attempt to drown and jumping from a roof. The main reasons to harm themselves deliberately were after arguing with parents, fights and problems with brothers, problems at studies, and drinking alcohol. The main cause of deliberate self-harm was a wish to... [to full text]