| Abstract [eng] |
Justification: In view of the Lithuanian and foreign scientists’ information, young people’s lifestyle is not conducive. It is still appropriate to assess the students’ way of life, to monitor changes and organize the measures to improve the situation. Lithuanian researchers pay little attention at vocational school pupils’ lifestyle assessment. This is what determined the goals and objectives of the study we selected. The aim: to evaluate Marijampolė County Vocational Education Centre students’ lifestyle. Research objectives: 1. To determine students’ feeding habits. 2. To assess sexual behaviour. 3. To evaluate students’ physical activity and personal hygiene. 4. To evaluate smoking, alcohol and drug consumption patterns and the factors influencing them. Methodology: The research was conducted through anonymous questionnaire. Totally 734 students of Marijampolė County Vocational Training Centre were interviewed. Of these, 235 (32.0 per cent) were girls and 499 (68.0 per cent) guys. Data was processed with the means of SPSS 17.0 and WinPepi 11.65 software. For qualitative data analysis, Pearson Chi-square (χ²) and Fisher’s exact test were used. Data difference was considered statistically significant at p ≤ 0.05. Mann-WhitneyU test was applied to compare categorical – ordinal data in the two groups. Smoking, alcohol, drugs and sex prevalence is expressed as a percentage, to assess accuracy of the estimate, 95 % (PI) was calculated. Hazard assessment included logistic regression. Results and conclusions: sufficiently often vegetables are consumed by 13.8 per cent, fruits by 12 per cent, cereal products by 13.9 per cent, fish products by 20.8 per cent and dairy products by 17.7 per cent of the students. 24.1 per cent of the students do not have breakfast. More than a half of the students have had sexual intercourse. Larger part of the students started sexual life at the age of 15. Physical activity of more than one third of Marijampolė vocational training schools pupils complies with the WHO recommendations. Almost half of the students clean teeth with toothbrush and toothpaste twice a day. 61.6 per cent of the students smoke on a daily basis. Most of the respondents first tried smoking at the age of 11 or even younger. Most students smoke 6 – 10 cigarettes per day. About 70.0 per cent of the pupils at different frequencies consume different types of alcohol. The most common alcohol is beer. More than the third of the students have tried drugs. One tenth use drugs on a daily basis. |
