斯瓦内地区中学学生的心理健康素养1:一个定量研究
Dumisile P Madlala1, Pierre Joubert2, Oratilwe P Mokoena3
1Department of Health, Faculty of Science, Tshwane District mental health services, Tshwane, South Africa.
概括
青少年心理健康素养对于预防和维护至关重要. 虽然对严重抑郁症,物质诱导精神疾病和社会焦虑症症状的认识很高,但改善寻求帮助的知识对青少年来说至关重要.
科学领域:
- 精神病学是一个精神病学.
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
- 青少年健康 青少年健康
背景情况:
- 心理健康素养 (MHL) 对于年轻人的心理健康至关重要.
- 在青少年中对MHL的研究有限.
- 这项研究解决了中学学习者的MHL差距.
研究的目的:
- 评估中学学生的心理健康素养.
- 评估学习者识别心理健康障碍的能力.
- 确定对心理健康问题的适当寻求帮助和急救的知识.
主要方法:
- 在南非的 Tshwane 进行了定量横截面研究.
- 用重大抑郁障碍 (MDD),物质诱导精神病障碍 (SIPD) 和社会焦虑障碍 (SAD) 的 vignettes 来评估参与者.
- 评估了障碍识别,寻求帮助的知识和心理急救技能;比较了城市和乡镇学习者之间的MHL.
主要成果:
- 对于MDD (80.71%),SIPD (61.96%) 和SAD (67.91%) 的高症状识别率.
- 寻求帮助的知识不同:MDD的52.55%,SIPD的63.83%和SAD的23.86%,倾向于非正式的帮助.
- 对MDD和SIPD有很好的心理急救知识,但对SAD却很差.
结论:
- 青少年对心理健康障碍的认识是有希望的.
- 在寻求帮助的知识方面存在很大的改进空间,特别是在焦虑症方面.
- 调查结果为学习者提供了有针对性的心理健康宣传活动的信息.
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