Anna Oblacinska

Instytut Matki i Dziecka · Child and Adolescent Health

Background: The enforced restrictions, including physical isolation and school lockdowns after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, have brought about anxiety and uncertainty the younger generation. Objective: The main objective is to analyse the everyday challenges faced by adolescents in Poland during the time of social isolation in the COVI...

Background: Although the relationship between adolescents' body image and cyberviolence has been proved, little is known about the place of body image among other psychosocial determinants. The study aimed to assess the relationship between body satisfaction and cyberbullying in the context of other psychosocial factors. Methods: We used data of...

Tło badań: Analizy umieralności dzieci i młodzieży są ciągle ważnym elementem monitorowania stanu zdrowia tej populacji. Poprzez systematyczne ich powtarzanie można wykazać różnice w strukturze przyczyn zgonów oraz tendencje zmian i dystans, jaki dzieli Polskę od innych krajów. Cel: Celem opracowania jest przedstawienie aktualnych danych oraz te...

Wstęp: Poczucie sensu życia to niezwykle istotny wskaźnik zdrowia psychicznego, którego deficyt może prowadzić do wielu zaburzeń funkcjonowania psychospołecznego. Wielu autorów, zwłaszcza związanych z nurtem psychologii humanistycznej, podkreśla znaczenie sensu życia w kształtowaniu zdrowia nastolatków. Cel: Celem pracy było zbadanie poziomu poc...

Introduction: Self-rated health (SRH), an indicator which is extensively used in population studies, constitutes a measure of health closely linked to morbidity, mortality and overall health status and enjoys popularity in surveys monitoring adolescents. Most studies show that at puberty girls assess their health as worse than boys do, and the dif...

Introduction: Schools are important settings for the promotion of healthy diet and sufficient physical activity to prevent civilisation diseases related to lifestyle. Objective: To describe school physical activity and nutrition environment in elementary schools in Poland, and to asses differences in school physical activity and nutrition enviro...

Nowadays, childhood obesity is one of the key health problems in European countries. This article presents a study that is part of the World Health Organization (WHO) Childhood Obesity Surveillance Initiative (COSI) implemented in the WHO European Region since 2007. The main goal of the study is to monitor obesity in early school-aged children. The...

Very little is known about how multicomponent interventions directed to entire populations work in selected groups of adolescents. The aim was to evaluate the effectiveness of the Healthy Me one-year program on changes in healthy eating and physical activity among overweight and non-overweight female students. Randomization involved the allocation...

Background: An assumption was made that results of programme evaluation lead to better understanding for whom this intervention may work. The aim of the article is to compare the changes in physical activity of the intervention programme participants depending on subjective assessment of its impact. Methods: The data were obtained from 14- to15-...

Introduction Healthy Me (HM) interventional study was oriented on improvement of physical activity (PA) in 15-year old girls but also included component of eating habits, smoking prevention and personal competencies. Innovative elements of the project involved usage of fitness-band with continuous monitoring of PA and special dedicated smartphone a...

Objective: Introduction: Self-rated health (SRH), an indicator which is extensively used in population studies, constitutes a measure of health closely linked to morbidity, mortality and overall health status and enjoys popularity in surveys monitoring adolescents. Most studies show that at puberty girls assess their health as worse than boys do,...

Tło i cele: Poszukiwanie sensu życia jest podstawową motywacją w życiu człowieka, a jego brak może prowadzić do wielu zaburzeń, m.in. do wchodzenia w rolę zarówno ofiary, jak i sprawcy przemocy rówieśniczej. Metody: Anonimowym badaniem ankietowym objęto 4085 uczniów z 70 gimnazjów zlokalizowanych we wszystkich województwach w Polsce (52% – dziewczę...

Introduction: Feeling of meaning in life is extremely crucial factor of mental health. The lack of it can result in various disorders. Many authors, especially those connected with current of humanistic psychology underline the teenagers' life sense. The aim: The aim of the paper was to examine the level of satisfaction with life, the frequency...

Introduction: The PACS scale is a tool which is widely used in foreign studies to evaluate the tendency towards appearance comparisons in social situations. People inclined to make such comparisons reveal a higher level of dissatisfaction with their body and a higher inclination towards problem eating. Purpose of the study: The main purpose of the...

Background: Analyses of children and young people mortality continue to be an important component of health monitoring of this population. Such analyses provide the basis to assess the overall trends, the structure of the causes of death over longer periods, and the differences between Poland and other countries. Purpose: The purpose of the curr...

The aim: to identify the barriers to engaging in physical activity that are perceived by adolescents with overweight and obesity, and to establish whether a correlation exists among the barriers they perceive and the health-oriented motivation for undertaking physical activity. Material and methods: The study was conducted on a representative sa...

Introduction: The PACS scale is a tool which is widely used in foreign studies to evaluate the tendency towards appearance comparisons in social situations. People inclined to make such comparisons reveal a higher level of dissatisfaction with their body and a higher inclination towards problem eating. Purpose of the study: The main purpose of t...

Predictors of high-risk patterns of substance use are often analysed in relation to demographic and school-related factors. The interaction between these factors and the additional impact of family wealth are still new areas of research. The aim of this study was to find determinants of the most common patterns of psychoactive substance use in mid-...

Objective: To identify barriers to physical activity (PA) for adolescents according to the gender and age and examine the association between these barriers and youths' physical activity. Subjectand methods: 3346 students aged 10-16 years (1759 girls) took part in the cross-sectional, nationally representative study. For this paper the dataset w...

Objective: To estimate the prevalence of meeting health behaviour guidelines regarding eating breakfast, fruit and vegetable consumption and physical activity and to identify adolescents who accumulate the unhealthy behaviours. Subject and methods: Cross-sectional study was conducted in 2008 in adolescents aged 13-year-old (N = 574). They self-r...

Objective To identify the patterns of physical activity and sedentary behaviors (TV viewing and computer use) among Polish adolescents and their prevalence in girls and boys. Material and methods Cross-sectional study was conducted in Poland in 2008 among 13-year-olds (n = 600). They self-reported their physical activity (MVPA – moderate-to-vigoro...

Objective To analyze relationships between the frequency of family meals, clear communication, support within the family and subjective health and life satisfaction of 11–15-year-olds. Material and Methods The study was conducted in 2012 among 319 primary and lower secondary school pupils. Young people filled the anonymous questionnaire about fami...

Aim: To examine the level of optimism in 13-year-olds and the relationship between optimism and self-reported health and family psychosocial and economic factors. Material and methods: Adolescents at the age of 13 years (n=605) and their parents, identified in the third stage of a prospective cohort study in 2008, was analysed. To examine the le...

Objective: 1. To estimate the time spent in sedentary behaviour (watching TV, using the computer, doing homework). 2. To assess the link between the total time spent on watching TV, using the computer, doing homework and dietary habits, physical activity, parental practices and body mass. Material and methods: Cross-sectional study was conducted...

Aim: To examine the association of both maternal parenting practices towards 13 year-olds and breastfeeding with regard to the BMI of adolescents. Methods: The prospective cohort study was conducted in Poland in 1995-2008. Participants included 483 families with normal-weight and overweight/obese 13 year-old children who completed the short form of...

Aim: To analyse the relationship between the frequency of family meals and the body weight of 13-year-olds and its selected determinants. Material and methods: The study was conducted in 2008 as the last stage in a prospective cohort study of 605 children. Questionnaires containing questions about the frequency of family meals, the general regul...

Objectives: 1. To examine the prevalence of selected risk factors for atherosclerosis: overweight, tobacco smoking, low physical activity, psychological distress and type A personality (characterized by tenseness, impatience, competitiveness, and aggressiveness) in adolescents and to assess the frequency the coexistence of risk factors (≥3) in rel...

Previous studies on relationships between the current family structure, socioeconomic status and family members' body mass don't give unequivocal results. A life course perspective evaluates the contribution of early life factors jointly with later life factors to identify risk and protective processes. The relationship between economic status, fam...

The aim of this paper was to present the growth standards for children aged 0-5 years - which is a new tool for the assessment of health, growth and nutritional status recommended by WHO for use all over the world. These standards were elaborated in 2006 on the basis of the results of the WHO Multicentre Growth Reference Study (a longitudinal and c...

Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviour as Predictors of Adolescent Health in Rural and Urban Environments in Poland While numerous studies have examined correlates of physical activity, less attention has been given to identifying the rural/urban differences in the strength of the relationship between physical activity and health. The main objec...

To investigate the differences in the dietary patterns of Polish overweight and normal weight adolescents. The study was carried out on a group of 1906 pupils from gymnasium (lower secondary school) aged 13-15 years, of whom 953 were overweight and 953 had normal body mass. The sample was taken from a representative group of 8386 pupils. Their heig...

To examine the prevalence of overweight and obesity among parents and their 13-year-old children in Poland, and relationships between parental and child obesity. The study was conducted in 2008 as a part of prospective cohort follow-up study from 1995. The sample included 579 children (289 girls, 290 boys), their parents (549 mothers, 487 fathers)....

To examine the prevalence of overweight and obesity in Polish adolescents in 2005 using both the International Obesity Task Force (IOTF) cut-offs and a national reference; to compare this to data collected in 1995; and to assess whether there were differences in overweight or obesity by gender and place of residence in 1995-2005. BMI was calculated...

To investigate the relationship between parenting practices and mental health of adolescents with different body mass index. The investigation was conducted in 2008 as part of prospective cohort study of 605 children (305 girls and 300 boys).They were observed in the neonatal period, at the age of 3 years and at the age of 13 years. By mail the ado...

1. Current physical status and selected pubertal features were assessed in Polish 13-year old adolescents, in urban and rural areas. 2. Dynamics and secular trends of body height, mass and body mass index in 1980-2008 were analyzed. The study was conducted in 2008 in prospective cohort of 605 children (305 girls and 300 boys), who had been observed...

To analyse the influence of selected family socioeconomic factors on the regularity of meals consumption among 13-years aged adolescents. Group of 605 13-years olds identified in the prospective cohort study in 2008 was analysed. Data was gathered with use of posted questionnaires. On the basis of information given by children the regularity (4-5 t...

Growth and development assessment of infants and young children is a very important component of early prophylaxis in paediatric health care. In 2006 the World Health Organization published the new Child Growth Standards for children up to 5 years of age. They describe the optimal pattern of young children development. 1. To compare the cut-off poi...

1. Comparison of cut-off points for selected anthropometric parameters in children and adolescents between reference values for Polish Institute of Mother and Child (IMD) and WHO growth The accepted reference system were IMD reference values and the differences for mean (50th) and 3rd and 97th percentile for height and weight were calculated for bo...

Early identification of children with developmental delay is an important task for the primary care physicians. Different screening tests are used to detect developmental disorders in infants and young children. The authors describe screening tools currently available in Poland in the primary care setting. The review of the standardized development...

Access to health care, including preventive health care for pupils affects the health of society. Equal access to pupils'preventive health care means the same level of preventive services for all children and adolescents regardless of school type, place and region of domicile. To analyse the quality of preventive health care for pupils in school ye...

Social exclusion constraints the development of individuals and groups. Especially endangered are inhabitants of villages and small towns. To prevent social exclusion of children and adolescents from poor families or with social dysfunctions, community clubs are being organized. THE PURPOSE of the study was a preliminary assessment of preparing com...

School-based physical education (PE) is often proposed as a strategy for obesity prevention and treatment. Thus the role of PE teachers is crucial on this field. The purpose of this study was to investigate the perception of PE teachers towards overweight and obese pupils aged 13-15 years, especially psychosomatic problems and support for obese ado...

to examine the prevalence of nutritional status and growth disorders in 13-year-olds in Poland by sex and place of residence and changes during the period 2005 to 2008. The study was conducted in 2008 as a part of prospective cohort follow-up study of 605 children (305 girls and 300 boys), from birth to 13 years. Analyses of anthropometric measurem...

AIM of the study was to examine the association between family socio-economic status, local area problems and prevalence of underweight, overweight and obesity in Polish 15-year-olds. data from HBSC (Health Behaviour in School-aged Children) surveys, carried out in Poland in 2006 in representative sample of adolescents mean aged 15.7 (N = 2287) was...

THE PURPOSE of the study was to analyse the relationships between social environment (school, family, peers) factors and distress of adolescents aged 18 years. the questionnaire survey was carried out in the sample of 1379 pupils in the third grade of upper secondary schools; mean age of pupils 18.7 years. The questionnaire contained scale GHQ-12 (...

Overweight and obesity has become an increasing problem in school aged children and adolescents also in Poland. Early detection and treatment of this disorder is crucial. On the basis of height and body mass measurements, the body mass index (BMI) is calculated and is used to assess overweight for maximal correlation with body fat. BMI has been wid...

The aim of the study was to analyse the relationships between objective body mass index and subjective body image, life satisfaction and self-esteem of adolescents. the study was carried in 5 regions in Poland, on the sample of over 8,000 pupils aged 13-15 yrs, from randomly chosen 112 lower secondary schools. School nurses measured the height and...

The aim of the study was to examine the prevalence of underweight in Polish teenagers in demographic and regional context. The examination was conducted in 5 regions in Poland, in a representative cohort of 8067 13-15 years pupils in 112 lower secondary schools. The measurements of body height and mass were taken and body mass index (BMI) was calcu...

The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of overweight and obesity in Polish adolescents aged 13-15 years using three research tools: 1. BMI > or = 85th (overweight) and BMI > or = 95th percentiles (obesity) using Polish national reference data, 2. WHO standard, 3. International Obesity Task Force (IOTF) standard. Height and weight wer...

This study was designed to evaluate the current smoking status among adolescents of upper-secondary schools in Poland and to examine potential relationships between environmental factors (place of living and school type) and current cigarette smoking, smoking experimentation and age of first cigarette. Questionnaire survey was conducted in February...

To analyse relationships between selected elements of family, school and peer environments and susceptibility to medically treated repeated injuries in pupils aged 11, 13 and 15 yrs in Poland. The survey was carried out in 2002 on the representative sample of pupils (N=6383), within the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children: A WHO Collaborative...

The aim of the study was to analyse: annual occurrence of injuries in pupils aged 11, 13 and 15 years in Poland, common location of injury occurrence and type of activity, as well as the type of body harm. The results of the survey were compared with similar studies in 1994 and 1998 and series of trends were drawn. The survey was carried out in Pol...

The aim of this article is the presentation of principles in reforming preventive health care system for pupils. In this context the goals and tasks of school health care policy programme "Implementation of standards in health care for school-age population" are shown and discussed. Results of programme realisation in 2002 are also discussed.

The goal of this work is the presentation of the first version of standards in preventive health care over pupils in Poland, carried out by school nurses or school hygienists and primary health care physicians. Targets, main principles of standards and the course of all activities during their preparation are discussed. Main elements of this docume...

The aim of the investigations carried out by the National Institute of Mother and Child in school-aged children and adolescents including a group of obese pupils, was to assess the health behaviour concerning eating habits and food consumption. A part of these investigations was carried out in framework of international collaborative studies. In a...

The aim of this study was to assess health behaviour in obese pupils aged 11-17 years in one of the districts in Warsaw. Self-assessment about own health, appearance and possibilities was also studied. Questionnaire studies were carried out in pupils with obesity and in a control group of pupils, with normal body weight. We found the biggest defici...

Three infants with symptoms of diabetes insipidus are described. Psychogenic polydipsia, which rarely occurs in infancy, was diagnosed. It was caused by mistakes made by the parents in bringing up these children.