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Introduction: Parents have a significant impact on the formation of their children's health-saving behavior. A detailed study of this effect allows us to determine strategies of interaction and directions of psych correction of maladaptive behaviors in health issues. Deformation of family relationships can lead to violations of adaptation and dependent behavior in children. Objectives: To access the parental influence on the formation of health-saving behavior in primary school-age children. Methods: The study has involved 69 people (33 frequently and rarely ill children (mean age - 9±1.8) and 36 parents (mean age - 43±11). We used "Unfinished sentences about health" (Yakovleva, 2014) for both children and parents and the questionnaire "The Analysis of family relationships" (Eidemiller, Justickis, 1990). Results: Parents of frequently and rarely ill children in families with hyper- and hypoprotection transmitted their health attitudes to primary school-age children in such components as: Diseases (75% vs 75%, p>0.05), Health promotion factors (causes) (75% vs 83.3%, p>0.05). Families with hyperprotection significantly differ from hypoprotection families by the following components: Assessment of healthy people (81.2% vs 58.3%, p=0.01), Health promotion actions (62.5% vs 83.3%, p=0.01). Awareness of the value of health is transmitted in families with hyperprotection in 100% of cases and is not transmitted in families with hypoprotection at all. Conclusions: The obtained results prove the importance of family education style and parents' health attitudes to the process of the health-saving behavior formation in children. We have identified health attitude components that are the most significant for children at this age. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: Important reasons for the development of child anxiety are the factor of parental anxiety and the experience of the children's illness. There are differences between the level of anxiety in frequently and rarely ill children, as well as these indicators in their parents. Objectives: To assess the relationship between parental anxiety and anxiety among frequently and rarely ill children. Methods: Sample: 145 people: 46 frequently ill children (mean age - 16.3±0.3), 41 rarely ill children (mean age - 16.1±0.1), 28 parents of frequently ill children (mean age - 44.9±0.8), 30 parents of rarely ill children (mean age -44.5±1.5). Methods: State-TraitAnxiety Inventory (Spielberger, 1983), Short Health Anxiety Inventory (Salkovskis, 2002). Results: Frequently ill children significantly differ from rarely ill children by personal anxiety parameter (p= 1.386, p=0.01) and have no significant differences with this indicator in their parents (p=12.825, p>0.05). For rarely ill children and their parents, this indicator has significant differences (p=2.382, p=0.01). Frequently ill children, like their parents, have a high level of personal anxiety, which may not always be correlated with the severity of the disease of children, but has an impact on their personal development. Health anxiety among frequently and rarely ill children has no significant differences (p= 9.265, p>0.05). Illness experience doesn't affect health anxiety in these groups. Conclusions: Parental anxiety is defined as one of the significant components of adverse effects on children's development. The psychological impact on the frequently ill anxious child will be more effective if the parental attitude to him is optimized. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: Psychological ill-being can be manifested in children's personal characteristics, formed under the influence of a large number of factors, including the incidence of respiratory diseases. It is associated with firsthand illness experience and differ at frequently and rarely ill groups. Children's peculiar properties diagnostic is necessary for working with the subject pattern of health deformations and prevent possible future mental problems and risks of substance use. Objectives: To define the influence of illness experience on children's personal characteristics. Methods: The study has involved 33 children: 15 frequently ill children (mean age - 9±1.8), 18 rarely ill children (mean age - 9±1.4). We used: "Unfinished sentences about health" (Yakovleva, 2014), "Multi-factor personality questionnaire" (Children CPQ). Results: Frequently ill children significantly differ from rarely ill children by the following characteristics: "self-confidence" (1.277, p=0.036), excitability (4.222, p=0.019), risk tendency (2.546, p=0,03), responsibility (5.323, p=0.008), self control (5.323, p=0.048), nervous tension (3.429, p=0.037). Frequently ill children are more excitable, reckless, nervous. They are less confident, less responsible and less in control of their behavior than their rarely ill coevals are. Frequently and rarely ill children give positive selfassessment of their health (73.3% and 55.5%), however, in the group of frequently ill children this assessment is significantly more frequent (p=0.01), despite their illness experience. Conclusions: The obtained results prove the need to take into account the personal characteristics of children when working with the formation and correction of the subject pattern of health in order to prevent maladaptive health behavior and possible mental disorders in adolescents. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]