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Taikomosios fizinės veiklos poveikis psichikos negalią turinčių asmenų fiziniam pajėgumui ir jų požiūriui į fizinę veiklą / An effect of adapted physical activity on physical fitness of persons with intellectual disabilities and their attitude toward physical activity

There is no well-balanced psychiatric service in Lithuania. Workers of this service the main attention pay to medical treatment and pay no regard to social and psychological help as well as rehabilitation methods. As a lot of research showed, the well-being and quality of life of persons with intellectual disabilities depend on rehabilitation and social help rather than on treatment using medicine. The lack of investigation of this field in Lithuania shows that these questions are great of importance. We designed a study and directed our investigation to the following question: is program of adapted physical activity has an influence on emotional well-being and physical fitness of persons with schizophrenia.
The aim of the study to detect an effect of adapted physical activity program on persons’ with schizophrenia physical fitness and their attitude towards adapted physical activity. The following research tasks were addressed: (1) to examine the cognitive conditions of persons with schizophrenia and according the conditions to prepare individual program of adapted physical activity; (2) to evaluate an effect of adapted physical activity program on attitude towards adapted physical activity; (3) to determine an effect of adapted physical activity program on physical fitness of persons with schizophrenia; and (4) to detect the differences of an effect of adapted physical activity according to gender.
The following research methods of the study were applied: analysis of... [to full text]

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:LABT_ETD/oai:elaba.lt:LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2005~D_20050518_083849-25000
Date18 May 2005
CreatorsMotiejūnaitė, Rūta
ContributorsSkučas, Kęstas, Valužienė, Nijolė, Mikelkevičiūtė, Jūratė, Jakušovaitė, Iraida, Mikelkevičiūtė, Juratė, Adomaitienė, Rūta, Ivaškienė, Vida, Vaitauskienė, Vida, Lithuanian Academy of Physical Education
PublisherLithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), Lithuanian Academy of Physical Education
Source SetsLithuanian ETD submission system
LanguageLithuanian
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeMaster thesis
Formatapplication/pdf
Sourcehttp://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2005~D_20050518_083849-25000
RightsUnrestricted

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