Liudmila Arcimavičienė, Jūratė Armonienė Abstract Purpose. The aim of this study was to identify and analyse self-identity of Lithuanian youth during the COVID-19 pandemic, and how it is impacted by their involvement into physical activity and general state of mental health. Methods. To achieve the above, 140 responses were collected from young Lithuanian adults in…
Birutė Strukčinskienė, Neringa Strazdienė, Alona Rauckienė-Michaelsson, Vaiva Strukčinskaitė, Dileta Tervydytė, Emilija Griškonytė, Sigitas Griškonis Abstract Introduction. Alcohol consumption has a negative impact on the health of children, adolescents and young people, including students. Students’ alcohol consumption studies could help prevent the use of harmful psychoactive substances. Materials and Methods. 319 university students participated in the…
Žydra Kuprėnaitė, Jolita Lubienė, Ramunė Ubeikienė Abstract The family losing the priority of personality formation process and increasing responsibility within the educational institutions, it is important to look back to the family as the basic and most children‘s educational environment. This article aims to reveal the family impact on adolescents’ sexual health. The survey of…
Tomas Aukštikalnis, Juozas Raistenskis, Romualdas Sinkevičius, Lina Varnienė, Vaiva Strukčinskaitė, Vilma Dudonienė, Kristina Aukštikalnienė, Emilis Janeliauskas, Emilija Šinkūnienė Abstract The objective of study: to compare the effectiveness of isokinetic training and spine stabilization exercises in low back pain for adolescents. Materials and methods: The research was set in Children‘s Hospital, Affiliate of Vilnius University Hospital…
Žydra Kuprėnaitė, Jolita Lubienė, Ramunė Ubeikienė Abstract In today’s society, where more and more often dominate strange relationships, based on economic calculation, it is especially relevant to analyze the social factors to the emerging personality and its social health. We can distinguish, as particularly important, the following factors: family, friends and school. Each social interaction…
Žydra Kuprėnaitė, Jolita Lubienė, Ramunė Ubeikienė Abstract Recently a prevalence of the eating disorders – anorexia, bulimiaand binge eating can be observed. Manifestation of these disordersin adolescence worries a lot. It is important to compare eating habitsof the different teen gender, in order to discern possible trendsand predict potential problems of preventive measures, becauseinadequate eating…
Romualdas Malinauskas, Andrius Vaicekauskas Abstract Research aim was to establish peculiarities of wellbeing, activity, mood and optimism of adolescents engaged in sport. Research hypothesis was that sports activities would be beneficial to adolescents’ well-being and optimistic way of thinking. We investigated adolescent athletes of two age groups: 12.81±0.38 and 16±0.49 years of age, 90 athletes…
Audronė Dumčienė, Andrius Vaicekauskas Abstract Research aim was to establish the peculiarities of psycho-emotional well-being and aggression for physically active adolescents. The study deals with psycho-emotional well-being as a complex value consisting of four main components: level of mental health, feeling of coherence, self-control and level of stress. Adolescents were studied in two age groups:…
Vida Kilikevičienė, Ieva Viltrakytė Abstract This research is based on the material and data related to the expertise work implemented at the Children and Adolescents Psychiatry Unit of the State Forensic Psychiatry Service during two year period. It focuses on the complex forensic psychiatric-psychological expertises of children who were victims of the sexual crimes, and…
