| Abstract [eng] |
One of the most topical society‘s health problems is the health of youth and children. Negative social, behavioural and environmental factors dominating today cripple the health of a young person generating eventually negative consequences – somatic and psychological health disorders. Researches of schoolchildren and youth behaviour and lifestyle performed in Lithuania in these latter years revealed a wide spread of psychosomatic complaints and health disorders. Also research data indicates the tendency that with age young people estimate their health worse. The aim of the research: compare self-health evaluation of senior schoolchildren and youth as well as the spread of psychosomatic complaints and usage of medicine, evaluate factors affecting health. Tasks set to achieve the aim of the research: 1. Compare self-health evaluation of senior schoolchildren and youth. 2. Compare the spread of psychosomatic complaints and usage of medicine among senior schoolchildren and youth. 3. Evaluate factors affecting health of senior schoolchildren and youth. Using random selection and anonymous questionnaire 220 respondents from various regions of Lithuania were surveyed. 88 of them are schoolchildren (23 boys and 65 girls) and 132 are representatives of youth (51 boys and 81 girls). Schoolchildren are 14 – 17 years of age, youth – 18 to 24. The research showed that most senior schoolchildren (53,4%) and youth (46,2%) think their health is good (p>0,05). 19,3% of schoolchildren and 15,2% representatives of youth (p>0,05) evaluated their health as „very good“. 20,5% of senior schoolchildren and 33,3% (p=0,038) of youth representatives evaluate their health as „neither good nor bad“, respectively 6,8% and 5,3% (p>0,05) of respondents claim that it‘s „bad and very bad“. As it is, with statistically significant difference (p=0,029) it was revealed that more schoolgirls (34,8%) than schoolboys (13,9%) indicated that their health is „very good“. After the analysis of psychosomatic complaints it was stated that schoolgirls complained about headaches almost twice as often (p=0,041) as schoolboys (respectively 50,8% and 26,1%). Among representatives of youth (boys and girls) psychosomatic complaints are equally spread. Young people (22%) complained about weariness twice as often as schoolchildren (11,4%) (p=0,044). The medicine were used equally often by both schoolchildren and youth (p>0,05). There was also no statistically significant difference between genders found (p>0,05). The research showed that bad self-health evaluation was linked (p<0,05) to the number of respondent‘s current health disorders, regular experience of pain, negative emotions, bad quality of sleep and life as well as solitude. |
