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]
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LABT_ETD/oai:elaba.lt:LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2005~D_20050518_083849-25000 |
| Date | 18 May 2005 |
| Creators | Motiejūnaitė, Rūta |
| Contributors | Skučas, Kęstas, Valužienė, Nijolė, Mikelkevičiūtė, Jūratė, Jakušovaitė, Iraida, Mikelkevičiūtė, Juratė, Adomaitienė, Rūta, Ivaškienė, Vida, Vaitauskienė, Vida, Lithuanian Academy of Physical Education |
| Publisher | Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), Lithuanian Academy of Physical Education |
| 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_20050518_083849-25000 |
| Rights | Unrestricted |
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