Application of peer education in mental health education for adolescent primary and middle school students / 中国学校卫生

ABSTRACT

Objective@#To assess the application effect of peer education in mental health education for adolescent primary and middle school students and to provide evidence for promoting the mental health of adolescent primary and middle school students in application.@*Methods@#The non-randomized controlled trial was performed, 4-5 th grade students of two primary and 7-8 th grade students of two middle schools in a district of Chongqing were chosen as peer-education experimental group, and students in the same grade of another two school were chosen as the blank control group. The Mental Health Inventory of Middle School Students scale and self-made questionnaire were used to exam in mental health status of the subjects before and after intervention.@*Results@#The detection rates after intervention of the mental health, compulsion, paranoia, hostility, interpersonal relationship, depression, anxiety, academic stress, emotional imbalance and psychological imbalance (36.8%, 46.1%, 36.6%, 33.3%, 37.2%, 38.8%, 40.9%, 45.7%, 49.2%, 30.3%) in experimental group were lower than those before intervention (39.9%, 55.3%, 38.8%, 37.9%, 43.9%, 40.5%, 42.7%, 48.0%, 52.5%, 32.1%). The detection rate after intervention of maladjustment(39.8%)was higher than that before intervention(37.7%)(P<0.05). Logistic regression analysis showed that the detection rate after intervention of the mental health, compulsion, paranoia, hostility, interpersonal relationship, depression, anxiety and academic stress status of adolescent primary and middle school students in experimental group was 0.63 times more than the rate of the control group(95%CI=0.49-0.81),0.73(95%CI=0.58-0.91),0.68(95%CI=0.54-0.86),0.71(95%CI=0.56-0.91)(P<0.05).@*Conclusion@#Peer education is an effective measure and method to improve compulsion,paranoia,hostility,interpersonal relationship,depression,anxiety and intervention effect of adolescent primary and middle school students.