The Burnout Syndrome among Women Working in the Retail Network in Associations with Psychosocial Work Environment Factors.

The burnout syndrome is a significant occupational health problem in various employees' populations. The aim of this study was to evaluate burnout level among retail network workers and its associations with psychosocial work environment. The cross-sectional epidemiological study was conducted on workers of one Lithuanian retail network ( = 254), where all respondents were women.

Association between computer game type, playing time and sense of coherence in Lithuanian adolescents.

Objective: As an excessive gaming is the addiction of the 21th century, purpose of our study was to investigate how sense of coherence interacts with gaming time, choice of various games types, age and gender characteristics. Our task was to evaluate relationship between computer gaming and an adolescent's sense of coherence.

Methods: A cross-sectional study based on a self-reported questionnaire was performed among the representative samples of 1,806 adolescents aged 13-18 years.

Associations between musculoskeletal pain and work-related factors among public service sector computer workers in Kaunas County, Lithuania.

Background: Information technologies in occupational activities have been developing very rapid. Epidemiological studies have shown that musculoskeletal disorders are widely prevalent among employees working with a computer. The aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of musculoskeletal pain in various anatomical areas and its associations with individual, ergonomic, and psychosocial factors among computer workers of the public sector in Kaunas County, Lithuania.

Problematic computer game use as expression of Internet addiction and its association with self-rated health in the Lithuanian adolescent population.

Background And Objective: Computers and the Internet have become an integral part of today's life. Problematic gaming is related to adolescent's health. The aim of our study was to evaluate the prevalence of Internet addiction among 13-18-year-old schoolchildren and its relation to sex, age, and time spent playing computer games, game type, and subjective health evaluation.

Associations between neck musculoskeletal complaints and work related factors among public service computer workers in Kaunas.

Objectives: Information technologies have been developing very rapidly, also in the case of occupational activities. Epidemiological studies have shown that employees, who work with computers, are more likely to complain of musculoskeletal disorders (MSD). The aim of this study was to evaluate associations between neck MSD and individual and work related factors.

Nutritional habits of middle-aged schoolchildren from Kaunas town and Raseiniai district.

Objective: To evaluate nutritional habits of middle-aged schoolchildren living in a town and district of Lithuania.

Material And Methods: The 8th-9th-grade schoolchildren were questioned by an anonymous questionnaire. A total of 329 students, 169 from Kaunas and 160 from Raseiniai district, participated in the study.

Peculiarities of medical students' nutrition.

Unlabelled: The aim of the study was to investigate the peculiarities of medical students' nutrition, to compare the dietary habits between first-year and third-year students, to compare male and female students' nutrition, and to evaluate the tendencies of its change.

Material And Methods: An anonymous survey using a specially designed questionnaire was carried out on 349 first- and third-year students of the Faculties of Medicine and Pharmacy at Kaunas University of Medicine. Students' factual nutrition was evaluated by the number of meals per day, the time of eating, and the frequency of consumption of food products.

[Working conditions and workers' health impairments in drug distribution companies].

Unlabelled: The aim of the study was to evaluate working conditions according to hygiene norms and to determine health impairments of drug distribution companies' workers.

Material And Methods: Study was performed in summer of 2003 in drug distribution companies implementing good distribution practice. Study included 588 workers.