Management of Public Health
The prevalence of use of psychotropic agents among school pupils of Šiauliai region and the ways to its primary prevention
Dalia Miniauskiene
Supervisor prof. habil. dr. Žilvinas Padaiga,
Faculty of Public Health, Kaunas University of Medicine. – Kaunas, 2005. – P.73
Aim of the study. The aim of the study is to determine the prevalence of use of psychotropic agents among school pupils and to establish the model of drugs usage prevention.
Objectives: 1) to view the effective prevention programs; 2) to establish out what kinds of psychotropic agents are used in Šiauliai region among school pupils; 3) to establish the link between the use of psychotropic agents and the main sociodemographic indicators; 4) to find out the motives of drugs use.
Methods. In the year of 2003 the survey was carried out in Šiauliai region. Pupils of 5-11 forms participated (n=5513). 34 pupils (0,6%) to some of the given questions did not give their answers. The survey was carried out by asking respondents if they have ever used psychotropic agents, if so, how many times it has happened and if they use psychotropic agents systematically. The respondents were also asked how old they were when they had tried psychotropic agents for the first time, if they started using them constantly and what were the motives for doing that. The evaluation of statistic data was carried out using SPSS/W 10 which is applied in statistics. The dispersive analysis (ANOVA) was applied while... [to full text]
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LABT_ETD/oai:elaba.lt:LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2005~D_20050608_132426-34805 |
| Date | 08 June 2005 |
| Creators | Miniauskienė, Dalia |
| Contributors | Bučiūnienė, Ilona, Veryga, Aurelijus, Petrauskienė, Jadvyga, Milašauskienė, Žemyna, Gendvilis, Stasys, Bagdonas, Eugenijus, Raškevičienė, Rita, Misevičienė, Irena, Kalėdienė, Ramunė, Padaiga, Žilvinas, Kaunas University of Medicine |
| Publisher | Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), Kaunas University of Medicine |
| Source Sets | Lithuanian ETD submission system |
| Language | Lithuanian |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Master thesis |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2005~D_20050608_132426-34805 |
| Rights | Unrestricted |
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