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KMID : 0377619770320060697
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Korean Jungang Medical Journal
1977 Volume.32 No. 6 p.697 ~ p.706
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A Surveying Research on Primary School Teachers´ Knowledge about, Attitude towards, and Practice of School Health in Cholla Namdo Province
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Abstract
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With 820 primary schools teachers in Cholla Namdo Province, survey concerning the above subject was conducted, from Nov. to Dec. 1975. reaching the following results:
1) Distribution by sex and age showed: male 495 (60.4%), female 325(39.6 %), age group of male 35-39 26.3%, that of female 25-29 36.0%.
2) Marital status of men was 89.5%, that of women 69. 5%; 25% of both sides had two children; the ideal number of children they wished to have was 2 children: a male and a female each on the part of married women(42. 2%) while two males and one female on the part of married women (42.2 %) while two males and one female oil the part of married men(39.4%).
3) Graduates from Teachers Junior College occupied the priority with 37.2% in number of the questioned.
4) Non-believers in any religion showed 55.7%, and the largest religious group was Christianity with 16.6%.
5) Their origin was mainly from Cholla Namdo Province, 95.1%.
6) Distribution by the length of service year showed 15-19 years (27.9%) on the part of male teachers while 5-9 years on the part of female ones (33. 8%).
7) Their current positions were predominantly teachers (male 80. 8%, female 98.5%).
8) The number of classes of schools they serve was 30-39 and 40-49(25. 0 %), nurse-teachers were stationed at each school (100%).
9) Those who were totally ignorant of school health showed as much as 9.1% while those who mixed it with physical education showed surprising 46.1%.
10) Those who recognized the necessity off school health showed 94. 1%, yet those who defied cooperation 15.2%. 11) The contents of school health were fairly well understood(73.5%), yet 59. 9% on tuberculosis, 66. 7% on health education, showed scanty or no knowledge. 12) Large portion of them (84.8%) did not ever receive any school health education. 13) 95. 6% of them indicated that teachers should well equipped with school health education for the sake of children´s health. 14) Those who find nurse-teachers indispensable for children´s health showed.73.5%, while those who find them useless, or no-answer 26.5%. 15) 59.3% found the annual physical examination useful while 29% found it useless. 16) Vermifuge administered twice a year, spring and autumn was recognized as helpful by 93.7%. 17) 36.2% of school nursing clinic was well equipped, less equipped was 52.7 %, and 69.5% showed insufficient, unvariegated supplies, 18) The rate of using nursing clinic by teachers and children showed 49.6%, non-using 38.8%. 19) Coordination between school and health center showed: well-coordinated 28.9%, poorly-coordinated 37.8% : necessity for close coordination 78.0%. Suggestions:
1) More books on school health must be published in order to provide wider opportunity to purchase, along with frequent seminars for providing recognition of and intense concern on school health.
2) Subject on school health must be inserted and enlarged in college curriculum.
3) For the purpose of elevating professionalism and activities of nurse-teachers, more in-service training must be provided.
4) To perform more faithfully and to help utilize the nursing clinic, equipment’s and supplies of clinic must be abundant and variegated.
5) Coordination between school and related organization must be streamlined, thus to better serve school health activity.
6) Nurse-teachers must be appointed to each school having over 18 classes, in. order that children´s health problem would be better cared.
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