Significance of organizational health features during the COVID-19 pandemic for the well-being of Lithuanian healthcare workers.

Summary: During various emergencies, especially pandemics, there is a heavy burden on healthcare workers and pharmacists. Organizational support plays a significant role in protecting their mental health. Though the study aimed analyze the subjectively perceived difficulties and challenges of healthcare workers related to organizing work in the context of a pandemic.

Postnatal Depression and Post-Traumatic Stress Risk Following Miscarriage.

The experience of miscarriage is an important population-level problem that affects approximately 10-25% of pregnancies. The physical consequences of miscarriage have been researched extensively, but psychological sequelae less so. First-person accounts show that women who have experienced miscarriage feel pressured to stay silent, to grieve, and to fight intense physical and psychological challenges alone.

Wellbeing and Stress Coping among Healthcare and Pharmacy Workers: Experiences during the First COVID-19 Lockdown in Lithuania.

(1) Background. During the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare professionals faced psychological and social challenges in addition to a sharp increase in workload. The aim of this work was to reveal how healthcare and pharmacy workers assessed their wellbeing and the methods of coping they employed to overcome stress during quarantine.

Psychological Aspects of Media Communication during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Insights from Healthcare and Pharmacy Specialists in Lithuania.

In the setting of disasters, people seek information as they hope that knowledge will provide security. This makes the media a critical source of crisis exposure. The aim of the study described in this article was to analyze COVID-19 pandemic-related psychological aspects of media use by healthcare and pharmacy workers in Lithuania and to reveal the subjective effects of media consumption on their psychological well-being.

Social Anxiety in 15-19 Year Adolescents in Association with Their Subjective Evaluation of Mental and Physical Health.

Background: Studies show that social anxiety in adolescence have negative impact on quality of life. The study evaluates social anxiety links with mental and physical health factors in adolescents aged 15-19 years.

Methods: The research was performed in 2018 in secondary schools in Lithuania and included 1722 participants (46.

How Does the Assessment of Work Organization during the COVID-19 Pandemic Relate to Changes in the Well-Being of Health System Workers?

In the case of various emergencies, especially pandemics, healthcare workers are faced with disproportionate pressures. Organizational support plays a significant role in protecting the psychological and physical health of healthcare workers. This interdisciplinary research aims to determine how changes in the physical and psychological well-being of healthcare and pharmacy workers during the first wave of the COVID-19 lockdown are related to work organization factors that support safety and stability.

Post-Traumatic Stress Symptoms among Lithuanian Parents Raising Children with Cancer.

Background And Objectives: The study aims to evaluate post-traumatic stress symptom expression among Lithuanian parents raising children with cancer, including social, demographic, and medical factors, and to determine their significance for the risk of developing post-traumatic stress disorder.

Materials And Methods: The study was carried out in two major Lithuanian hospitals treating children with oncologic diseases. The cross-sectional study included 195 parents, out of which 151 were mothers (77.

Traumatic experiences, mental health, social support and demographics as correlates of alcohol dependence in a sample of Lithuanian police officers.

Policing is a demanding occupation which can expose its employees to many adverse, such as alcohol misuse and dependence. The aim of the study was to analyze and determine factors associated with police officers' alcohol dependence (AD). Five hundred and thirteen Lithuanian police officers and employees were surveyed.

Limits of Professional Competency in Nurses Working in NICU.

Unlabelled: Our study aimed to find out the views of nurses working in neonatal intensive care units about the limits of professional competencies and to identify situations where the limits are crossed.

Methods: The research employed the focus group method. For this research we had three focus groups with nurses working in neonatal intensive care units.

PREDICTORS OF EMOTIONAL AND BEHAVIORAL PROBLEMS IN 1-YEAR-OLD CHILDREN: A LONGITUDINAL PERSPECTIVE.

Emotional and behavioral problems at an early age can reasonably be considered a high-risk factor for later mental health disorders. The aim of the article is to reveal predictive factors of 1½-year-old children's emotional and behavioral problems. The study was a part of a prospective birth-cohort study.

Smoking during pregnancy in association with maternal emotional well-being.

Objective: The aim of the study was to investigate psychosocial predictors of smoking during pregnancy.

Materials And Methods: It was a cross-sectional analysis of a prospective birth-cohort study. The participants were 514 mothers of full-term infants.

Trends in adolescents' perceived parental communication across 32 countries in Europe and North America from 2002 to 2010.

Background: The quality of communication with parents is a determinant of health and well-being during adolescence, being predictive of self-esteem, self-rated health and the ability to navigate health risk behaviours.

Methods: This article describes trends in adolescent's (aged 11, 13 and 15 years) perception of communication with mothers and fathers by gender across 32 European and North American countries from 2002 to 2010. Analyses were performed on 425 699 records employing a General Linear Model (MANOVA).

Type A behavior pattern is not a predictor of premature mortality.

Background: Type A personality was introduced in the 1950s and was defined as an action-emotion complex characterized by excessive competitive drive, intense striving for achievement, easily provoked hostility, aggressiveness, impatience, and exaggerated sense of time urgency. Despite many positive findings earlier, almost 50 years of studies have not yielded conclusive results regarding Type A as a risk factor for negative health outcomes and early death. This may partly be due to methodological weaknesses such as small and selected samples, short follow-up times, and varying ways to assess Type A across studies.

Infant difficult behaviors in the context of perinatal biomedical conditions and early child environment.

Background: Problems experienced within the first year of an infant's life can be precursors of later mental health conditions. The purpose of this study was to examine the frequency and continuity of difficult behaviors in infants at 3 and 6 months of age and the associations of these difficulties with biomedical and psychosocial factors.

Methods: This study was a part of an ongoing prospective birth-cohort study.

[Characteristics of social support and their associations with depressiveness among Lithuanian adult rural population].

Background And Objective: Data of recent scientific studies have showed strong associations between person's social environment and physical and mental health. The aim of this study was to evaluate the characteristics of social support and disclose their associations with depressiveness in rural adult population.

Material And Methods: In 2006-2007, the survey was carried out in a random sample of population aged 25-64 years in five rural regions of Lithuania within the framework of the international CINDI program.

Trends of smoking prevalence among Lithuanian school-aged children in 1994-2006.

BACKGROUND. Despite much effort spent on antismoking programs in schools in different countries, limited effects have been observed in many cases. Evidence from European countries shows that active tobacco control actions such as ban on tobacco advertising, increase of tobacco taxes could lead to successful results.

Changes in emotional state of bed partners of snoring and obstructive sleep apnea patients following radiofrequency tissue ablation: a pilot study.

Purpose: To test the hypothesis that obstructive sleep apnea/hypopnea syndrome (OSAHS) and snoring affect not only the patients but also their bed partners, resulting in increased severity of symptoms of depression and sleepiness that may improve after the patients receive radiofrequency tissue ablation (RFTA) treatment.

Methods: Thirty-six snoring and/or OSAHS patients from 24 to 63 years of age (mean age 41.67 +/- 9.

[The types of deliberate self-harm and its prevalence among Lithuanian teenagers].

Unlabelled: The aim of this study is to identify how widely deliberate self-harm is spread and the types of deliberate self-harm among 15-17-year-old teenagers in Lithuania.

Material And Methods: The anonymous Lifestyle and Coping Questionnaire was used for the study carried out in 2006. This countrywide study involved 3848 respondents (2200 girls (57.

Changes in emotional state of snoring and obstructive sleep apnea patients following radiofrequency tissue ablation.

A total of 37 primary snoring and obstructive sleep apnea hypopnea syndrome (OSAHS) patients were treated with two sessions of radiofrequency tissue ablation (RFTA) to assess the relationship among RFTA and sleepiness, anxiety and depression in patients with OSAHS. Patients' sleepiness was rated according to the Epworth sleepiness scale (ESS), anxiety--on Spielberg's trait-state anxiety inventory scale and depression degree--with Beck depression inventory-second edition scale and the patients' major complaints were evaluated using visual analog scales before and after the treatment. A remarkable decrease in patients' complaints, sleepiness and depression after RFTA was observed.

Trends in alcohol consumption among Lithuanian school-aged children in 1994-2006 and new challenges.

Unlabelled: Alcohol abuse is considered one of the most important risk-taking behaviors among young people in the world. This paper presents the results of the WHO collaborative cross-national study on Health Behavior in School-aged Children (HBSC) carried out in Lithuania and other European countries also in USA, Canada, and Israel in 1994, 1998, 2002, and 2006.

Objective: The aim of this study was to analyze features and trends in alcohol consumption among the samples of 11-, 13-, and 15-year-old adolescents (school-aged children) in Lithuania during 1994-2006.