Role of School Teachers in Pupils’ Mental Health Promotion | ||||
| The Egyptian Journal of Community Medicine | ||||
| Article 9, Volume 36, Issue 1, January 2018, Page 117-129 PDF (397.26 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/ejcm.2018.6874 | ||||
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| Abstract | ||||
| Background: Mental health is an integral and essential component of health.School teachers should have an effective role in promoting mental health of their students. Objective: To investigate teachers` attitude towards their role in pupils’ mental health promotion, and identify barriers they may encounter.Methods:Multistage random sampling was undertaken, where Misr El Gededa and El Nozha Educational Zones were selected randomly from education zones in Cairo governorate. Twenty two (22)schools were selected from different strata of governmental, experimental and private schools in the preparatory stage for boys and girls. All available school teachers were invited to complete a self-administered questionnaire including questions aboutpersonal characteristics, work related qualifications andteachers’ cognitive, affective and behavior attitude towards pupils mental health promotion. Results:382 teachers (95.5%) agreed that teachers play an influential role in recognizing pupils with mental health problems, 389 teacher (97.25%) agreed that referring pupils with mental health problems for appropriate early support reduces their risk of developing mental health problems, 374 (93.5%) agreed that schools hold a unique position in positively affecting the mental health of pupils and nearly 350 teachers(88%) reported inadequatetrainingto recognize the earlysigns of pupils’mental healthproblems, concerns over workload and lack of services that promote teachers mental health to mitigate the workload before expecting from them to promote pupils' mental health as barriers to pupils mental health promotion. Total scores of the three dimensions of attitude (cognitive, affective and behavioral) were as regard the following variables the two educational zones, different school types, educational stages, graduation college, and taking educational diploma among those graduated from college other than graduation college, attending activities about pupils` mental health,teaching for special needs pupils and teaching for pupils with mentalhealth problems.Conclusion:Most of teachers had positive attitude toward their role in pupils` mental health promotion. Recommendation:Implementation of a training program for teachers on a screening tool to pick up cases that need specialized help and activation of the role of teachers in participation in health promoting activities with their pupils. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| mental health promotion; teachers'role; Attitude | ||||
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