Psychopathological symptoms in individuals at risk of Internet addiction in the context of selected demographic factors.

Introduction: Researchers who study the problems of Internet addiction point out that this dependence is often co-morbid with symptoms of a variety of pathological disorders, including anxiety, depressive, somatization, and obsessive-compulsive disorders. The goal of this study was to compare the severity of psychopathological symptoms in individuals at risk of Internet addiction (according to Young's criteria) and those not at risk of developing this addiction with respect to gender and place of residence (urban vs. rural).

Prevalence of self-injury performed by adolescents aged 16-19 years.

Objectives: The aim of the study was to assess the prevalence of self-injury among adolescents aged 16-19 years and to indicate demographic variable, selected environmental variables and risky behaviours coexisting with performing self-injuries by the respondents.

Methods: The research encompassed 5,685 individuals, aged 16-19 years. During the research the Questionnaire designed by the authors was used.

Changes to psychosocial functioning as demonstrated by the patients diagnosed with schizophrenia covered by the psychiatric rehabilitation system.

Aim: The objective of the research was to compare the self-image characteristics, stress coping strategies and the intensification of anxiety in patients diagnosed with schizophrenia before and after the rehabilitation programme.

Methods: The examined group was made up of 32 patients exclusively with the medical diagnosis of schizophrenia, according to the ICD-10 criteria. The mean age of the patients was 35 years, the average time of illness was 12 years.

[Personality traits of drivers serving a custodial sentence for drink driving].

Objectives: The aim of the work was the analysis of personality traits of men serving a custodial sentence for driving under the influence of alcohol.

Methods: The study included 44 males serving a custodial sentence for drink driving, 45 males serving a custodial sentence for assault and robbery as well as 32 men with no criminal record, who had never driven a motor vehicle under the influence of alcohol. The following research methods were used during the study: the Socio-demographic Questionnaire designed by the authors, the KRS, the Cattell's IPAT, the NI, the ACL and the Life style Questionnaire.

Prevalence of Internet addiction and risk of developing addiction as exemplified by a group of Polish adolescents from urban and rural areas.

Objective: The objective of the study was to determine the prevalence of Internet addiction and the risk of developing this addiction in Polish adolescents attending junior high schools and high school in Lublin Province, to indicate the differences regarding the intensity of Internet addiction symptoms, and the types of online activity of adolescents residing in urban and rural areas.

Material And Methods: The examined group comprised 1,860 participants (1,320 girls and 540 boys) with an average age of 17 years. 760 students lived in urban areas and 1,100 lived in rural areas.

Psychoactive substances use experience and addiction or risk of addiction among by Polish adolescents living in rural and urban areas.

The objective of the study was to determine the similarities and differences between adolescents with psychoactive substances use experience living in urban and rural areas as regards the intensity of Internet addiction symptoms as well as the evaluation of prevalence of psychoactive substances use among adolescents depending on the place of residence. The examined group consisted of 1 860 people (1 320 girls and 540 boys) their average age being 17 years. In the study the following research methods were used: the Sociodemographic Questionnaire designed by the authors, the Internet Addiction Questionnaire by Potembska, the Internet Addiction test by Young, the Internet Addiction Questionnaire (KBUI) designed by Pawłowska and Potembska.

[SIB-IMRT radiotherapy given concomitantly with cisplatin for locally advanced squamous cell head and neck cancer (SCHNC). Evaluation of the early results and toxicity].

Unlabelled: Concomitant radiochemotherapy become the treatment of choice for locally advanced SCHNC. This strategy of treatment has a limitation, which is an acute and late toxicity. The IMRT technique provides the possibility of better sparing of healthy tissue.

[Analysis of demographic data and family relationships in women with bulimia].

Aim: The aim of this study was an analysis of data collected from the case histories of female patients with a diagnosis of bulimia nervosa, who underwent medical treatment at the Psychiatry Department of the Medical University of Lublin in the years 1993-2003.

Methods: 53 female patients with a mean age of 22 years, the age of disease onset--17.5 years, and mean BMI = 22.

[Comparison of socio-demographic data of female patients with purging and restricting types of anorexia nervosa hospitalised at the Psychiatry Department of the Medical University of Lublin in the years 1993-2003].

Aim: The aim of this study was a comparison of socio-demographic data of female patients with a diagnosis of purging and restricting type of anorexia nervosa.

Methods: The method of the study was an analysis of the data obtained from 131 case histories of female patients with a diagnosis of anorexia nervosa (40 patients with restrictive type and 91 with a bulimic type of anorexia), treated at the Adolescent Department and the Neurosis Department of the Psychiatry Department of the Medical University of Lublin in the years 1993-2003. The mean age of the investigated patients with a restrictive type of anorexia was 20.

[Age and attitudes in relation to eating in girls with eating disorders and healthy girls].

Aim: The aim of the study was to compare of the D.M. Garner, M.

[Parent-child relations and sense of control in the perception of girls with anorexia].

Aim: The aim of this study was to look for any relationships between the parent-child relations and sense of control in the perception of girls with anorexia.

Method: The examined group consisted of 30 girls aged 15-23 years, diagnosed with anorexia nervosa (ICD-10) and 30 healthy girls of the same age (15-23). Parent-child relations were examined using the Parent-Child Relations Questionnaire (PCR, A.

[Present and premorbid self-image in patients with coronary heart disease].

Aim: The aim of this study was to find the differences between premorbid and present self-image in patients with coronary heart disease.

Methods: 70 patients with stable coronary heart disease treated at the Internal Medicine Department of the Military Hospital in Lublin and 70 healthy controls were studied. Mean age of the investigated patients was 53.

Supplementation of the cultivation media with B-group vitamins enhances lovastatin biosynthesis by Aspergillus terreus.

The impact of the supplementation of cultivation media with B-group vitamins on the biosynthesis of lovastatin (mevinolinic acid) by Aspergillus terreus ATCC20542 was investigated. A hypothesis was formulated that as the biosynthesis of lovastatin requires a high throughput of coenzymes in the cells, the application of its precursors in the form of B-group vitamins might positively influence the process. In a nitrogen-deficient medium the B-group vitamins, both single, especially nicotinamide, pyridoxine and calcium D-pantothenate, and a mixture of thiamine, riboflavin, pyridoxine, calcium d-pantothenate and nicotinamide increased the efficiency of lovastatin biosynthesis.

[Interdependencies between the ideal self-image and the ideal image of parents in women with anorexia nervosa].

Aim: The aim of this work was to answer the following question: in the perception of patients, what kind of dependencies occur between ideal images of women with anorexia and ideal images of their mothers and fathers. TEST GROUP AND METHOD: The examined group consisted of 30 patients diagnosed with anorexia nervosa, undergoing treatment at the Department of Psychiatry of the Medical University in Lublin. The average age of the examined females was 21 years.

[Interdependencies between the actual self-image and the actual image of parents in women with anorexia nervosa].

Aim: The aim of the study was to answer the following research problem: what dependencies occur between actual images of women with anorexia and actual images of their mothers and fathers in their daughters' perception? TEST GROUP AND METHOD: The examined group consisted of 30 patients diagnosed with anorexia nervosa, undergoing treatment at the Department of Psychiatry of the Medical University in Lublin. The average age of the examined females was 21 years. All patients had a secondary level education.

[Personality features in multiple sclerosis patients with a relapsing-remitting course of the disease].

Aim: The aim of this article was to find the differences between level of anxiety, level of depression and certain features of self-image during relapse and remission in multiple sclerosis patients.

Method: Subjects were 42 patients of the Neurology Department at the Military Hospital in Lublin with relapsing--remitting multiple sclerosis (RR-MS); 26 patients in relapse and 16 in remission of the disease. All patients included into the study had a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis according to the McDonald criteria.

[Interdependencies between anxiety versus premorbid and present self-image in patients with paranoid schizophrenia].

Aim: The aim of this work was to determine the relationship between anxiety versus premorbid and present self-image in patients with paranoid schizophrenia hospitalized for the first time as well as many a times. TESTED GROUP/MATERIAL: The test group consisted of 120 patients, hospitalized for the first time, aged 19-20 years and diagnosed according to ICD-10 with paranoid schizophrenia, who had suffered from this illness for a period not longer than 2 years. The other group consisted of patients aged 25 - 46, who had suffered from this disease for 5 - 15 years and who had been hospitalized many a times (3 > 10).

[The self-acceptance and the acceptance of the parents by patients with anorexia nervosa].

Aim: The aim of this work is to describe the relationship between self-esteem and characteristics of self image and acceptance of parents and the characteristics of their images in the perception of patients with anorexia nervosa.

Method: The test group consisted of 30 patients diagnosed with anorexia nervosa undergoing a treatment in the Department of Psychiatry of the Medical Academy in Lublin. The average age of the examined patients was 20 years.

[The self-image and the image of other people in the perception of patients with anorexia nervosa].

Aim: The aim of this study was to compare the self-image and the image of other people in the perception of female patients with anorexia nervosa.

Method: Thirty women with anorexia nervosa were investigated during hospitalisation in the Psychiatric Department of the Medical School of Lublin. The mean age of patients was 20 years.

[Connection between stressful live events with mental disorders].

Aim: The aim of the paper is to study the differences between the mentally ill and a control group correlated with stressful live events and its connection with a sense of coherence.

Methods: The group of 108 people, 49 psychiatric patients and 64 people without any mental disorders, were examined with the Hospital Anxiety-Depression Scale, Early Trauma Inventory, Social Readjustment Scale and the Sense of Coherence Scale.

Results: Patients with mental disorders had a significantly higher occurrence of stressful psychosocial factors during the last year, and also they were exposed to traumatic events in childhood more frequently than the control group.