SCHOOL HEALTH PROJECT

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SCHOOL HEALTH PROJECT
World Mental Health Day in October 2005 Dr.
M. L. Dhawale Memorial Homoeopathic Institute
Muskaan (TISS) workshop for school teachers
from Palghar and Boisar awareness mental
health status of students.
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AREAS OF STUDY

• Mental Health Survey of high school children in a
  semi rural area for planning interventions.
• Evaluating teacher awareness of mental health
  difficulties of high school children in a semi
  rural area for enhancing their skills and
  competences in handling.

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• AIMS AND OBJECTIVES OF THE SURVEY
• For the students
• To create awareness about the need for mental
  health and to motivate adolescents to seek early
  health when in difficulties.
• To carry out a survey to evaluate mental health
  status of adolescent children attending school in
  a semi rural area.
• To assess the pattern of occurrence of mental
  health morbidity.
• To relate to the difficulties faced at the
  growing up age with respect to
• Self-esteem/Self-confidence
• Inter-personal relationships
• Perception
• Behaviour
• Substance abuse
• To plan homoeopathic and other interventions
  through this analysis.

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• AIMS AND OBJECTIVES OF THE SURVEY
• For the teachers
• To understand the teachers perception of the
  nature of mental health difficulties in the
  adolescent age group.
• To establish the teachers self-role in spotting
  and dealing with the difficulties identified.
• To understand the need of teachers to equip
  themselves with the additional know how faculties
  in order to plan preventive and therapeutic
  measure, non medicinal and homoeopathic for
  protecting the adolescent age group from health
  hazards and more serious problems.

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SOURCES OF DATA Students Teachers VII,
VIII, IX
Collecting data
Planning intervention
Selecting schools
METHODOLOGY
Analyzing data
Questionnaire making
Administering questionnaire
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• CONCLUSIONS
• No significant difference found between the SSC
  and CBSE Board school students
• There was a significant difference found between
  the English and Marathi Medium schools with
  respect to the following
• Self-esteem/Self-confidence (English lt Marathi)
• Inter-personal relationships (Marathi lt English)
• Perception (English lt Marathi)
• Behaviour (English lt Marathi)
• Substance abuse (English lt Marathi)
• There was a significant difference found between
  the students of classes VII, VIII and IX with
  respect to the following
• Self-esteem/self-confidence (IX lt VII lt VIII)
• Inter-personal relationships (IX lt VII lt VIII)

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ANALYSIS OF TEACHERS QUESTIONNAIRE
1. COMMON PROBLEMS

• Lack of attention
• Poor concentration
• Talkativeness
• Parental attitude
• Irregular in doing homework
• Laziness
• Indiscipline
• Pressure from family/ teachers
• No extra Curricular activities

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2. CAPABILITIES

• Control over the class/maintain discipline.
• Improve interest in a particular subject
• Motivate them
• Develop good habits
• Improve self confidence
• Be patient
• Individual attention
• Understand students problems
• Good communication

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3. FACTORS PREVENTING

• Vast syllabus / too many exams, time limitation.
• Huge class strength
• Parental attitude
• Absentees / ill -health
• Poor financial status
• Illiterate parents
• Language barrier
• Non cooperativestudents/ anti socials
• Lack of co-operation or support from school

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4. STEPS TAKEN

• Regularly Checking H.W
• Friendly attitude
• Improve communication
• Discussing with parents
• Infrequent punishments
• Give value education
• Consulting doctors
• Motivating and encouraging them
• Improve ways of teaching/make subject interesting

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Focused Group DiscussionsFGDS

• THEMES
• Academics
• Sexuality
• Social issues
• Behavioural

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• CONCLUSION FROM THE FGDS
• SELF ROLE IDENTIFIED
• Expectations v/s Self realization
• Need to adopt is a change in their attitude.
• Need to invest time
• Explain the pros and cons to the students ?
  discriminate between the right and the wrong.
• Adopt the role of a middle man
• SUGGESTIONS
• Appoint a senior teacher in the primary sections.
• Quality education moral science and value
  education
• Help the students to channelize their extra
  energy
• Train them in counseling

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thank you