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KMID : 0367320050160020251
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Journal of the Korean Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
2005 Volume.16 No. 2 p.251 ~ p.260
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THE EFFECT OF A MENTAL HEALTH PROMOTION PROGRAM AT A MENTAL HEALTH MODEL MIDDLE SCHOOL
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Kwack Young-Sook
Ko Hye-Jeong
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Abstract
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Objectives: This study was performed to evaluate the effects of a mental health program within a mental health model middle school.
Methods: Subjects of the study consisted of 748 students from the second grade and third grade students at the middle school chosen for a school mental health program by the Ministry of Education in Jeju. The subjects participated in 12 consecutive sessions of group discussion developed to prevent mental health problems. The authors investigated the effects of the program by evaluating the students with Young’’s Internet Addiction Scale (IAS), Conners & Wells’’ Adolescent Self Report Scale(CASS) and Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) before the initial session and after the final session. The data was analyzed by t-test in SPSS PC+ 10.0. The range of significance was p<.05.
Results: In MMPI, the percentage of students above clinical range reduced from 12.9%;to;11.0%. It reduced in the second grade students, but increased in the third grade students. The scores of paranoia and mania subscales showed a statistically significant reduction. In IAS, the percentage of students above the range of Internee overuse reduced from 16.0%;to;6.8%. The percentage of students who showed risk of attention problems in CASS reduced from 22.7%;to;18.3%. Also, both IAS and CASS scores showed a statistically significant reduction. The clinical significance of the reduction of IAS scores was within moderate range.
Conclusion: The mental health program reduced the percentage of students’’ risk of mental health problems, internet addiction and attention problems and it was clinically effective on preventing Internet addiction. These results support the effects of a school mental health program to promote students’’ mental health. The authors suggest to expand this program to other schools, to reconfirm the effect of the program by using proper & specified instruments and to evaluate long-term effect of the program.
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KEYWORD
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Mental health promotion program, Model school
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