ผู้วิจัย/Authors: Boonvadee Petcharat

ชื่อเรื่อง/Title: Mental Health Self-Care Behavior of Adolescents in Secondary Schools, Songkla Province, Thailand.

แหล่งที่มา/Source: Journal of Mental Health of Thailand, Vol. 11, No. 1, January 2003, Page 21-30

รายละเอียด / Details:

The objective of this descriptive research ws to compare the scores of susceptibility to stress, symptoms of stress and mental health self-care behaviors(MHSC) according to sex, educational level, learning achievement, parent's marital status and accommodation during studying. Six hundred adolescents were stratified randomly collected from two urban government secondary schools in Songkhla Province. Suanprung Stress Tes -60 (SPST-60) and the MHSC questionaires were adapted as research instruments. Percentage, mean, standard deviations, t-test were used for data analysis. The finding showed that most subjects had moderate level of susceptibility to stress and responded to stress as emotional symptoms at highest level. Generally, the MHSC score was rated at moderate level. The highest score of MHSC was general self care and the lowest religious practice. Only subjects who had different in learning achievement present statistically significant different mean values of both susceptibilities to stress and symptoms of stress and subjects with different in educational levels and sexpresent statistically significant different mean value of MHSC behaviors. This finding can guide school administrators, community mental health nurses or school nurse to manage the appropriate mental health promotion and also prevention mental illness projects for school adolescents. Especially school nurses should be more concerned with physical illness of school adolescents that may be caused by mental health problems.

Keywords: susceptibility to stress, stress symptoms, school adolescent, mental health self-care

ปีที่เผยแพร่/Year: 2003

Address: Faculty of Nursing, Prince of Songkhla University

Code: 20050000272

ISSN/ISBN: 2859-497

Country of publication: Thailand.

Language: English.

Category: Abstract Journal.

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