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KMID : 0858820100270030067
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Journal of Korean Society for Health Education and Promotion
2010 Volume.27 No. 3 p.67 ~ p.74
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Relationship between High School Students" Awareness of Mental Health and Subjective Quality of Sleep
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Noh Eun-Kyung
Park Jong
Choi Cheon-Ho
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Abstract
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Objectives: This study aims to identify the effect between high school students" recognition of mental health on sleep quality to present basic data for better health.
Methods: The study used data obtained through the 2007 online research on adolescents" health behaviors, targeting a total of 35,228 high school students (18,628 of male students and 16,600 of female students).
Results: Seventy six point ninety six percent of the male respondents and 79.67% of female respondents answered their sleep quality was not satisfactory. The subjects who had stress showed significantly lower quality of sleep than those who answered they had no stress. For female students, those who answered they had intention to suicide had significantly lower quality of sleep than those who answered they did not have, but for male students, there was no significant relations between them. There were no significant relations between sense of dispair and sleep quality both for male and female subjects.
Conclusion: Factors of mental health related with sleep quality were stress and intention of suicide. The more they had stress and intention of suicide, the significantly lower sleep quality was. Therefore, in order to improve sleep quality of high school students, it is suggested that management programs based on education and counselling with experts should be provided and further studies on other mental health factors and sleep quality should be conducted.
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KEYWORD
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High school students, Mental health understanding, Subjective sleep quality
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