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KMID : 0858820150320010057
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Journal of Korean Society for Health Education and Promotion
2015 Volume.32 No. 1 p.57 ~ p.65
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Effects of school-based depression awareness education program for adolescent
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Choi Ran
Yim Hyeon-Woo
Jo Sun-Jin
Bang Myeong-Hee
Ji Yu-Na
Lee Won-Chul
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Abstract
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Objectives: This study was conducted to evaluate the impact of a School-based Depression Awareness Education Program on depression knowledge and help-seeking orientation for adolescent.
Methods: The students of two high schools were allocated to the intervention (n=221) or control group (n=223) in this cluster-randomized trial. The school-based depression awareness education was a 3-hour program. The intervention group received pre, post and follow up tests while the control group received pre and follow up tests after two months. Depression knowledge, attitude to friends’depression, and help-seeking for professional assistance was evaluated at each test. Differences in the two month change between the intervention and control groups were analyzed by t-test or chi-square test.
Results: There were positive changes in depression knowledge, response to friend’s depression, and attitude to professional help-seeking in the post test compared to the pretest among intervention group. Improvement of depression knowledge was greater in the intervention group than in the control group (P=0.011), but there were no significant differences in response to friend’s depression (P=0.268) or help-seeking orientation (P=0.263) after two months.
Conclusions: School-based Depression Awareness Education resulted in significant positive changes in depression knowledge in high school students, but made no attitudes difference to professional help-seeking.
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KEYWORD
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Depression, Awareness, Intervention, School, Adolescent
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