Teachers’ Perception regarding School Health Implementation at Albaha; Saudi Arabia. A Cross Sectional Study.
Journal Title: IOSR Journal of Research & Method in Education (IOSRJRME) - Year 2018, Vol 8, Issue 1
Abstract
Introduction: School Health Programme (SHP) have been developed to promote health and well-being of school children so as to increase their capacity for making healthy choices. Teachers in the school health programme play a fundamental role, as they carry the full authority for the promotion and successful implementation of the school health programme. Objective: our study has been conducted to evaluate school health services in Albaha Governorate; Saudi Arabia in both an urban and a rural area. Methods: this was a descriptive cross- sectional survey conducted from November 2016 to June 2017.Results:According to job description the respondents were classified as school administrators (head masters), health supervisors and subject teachers that constitute 16.2 %, 3.9%, and 79.8% respectively among the respondents. Most teachers were below 45 years old (79.4%). The majority of in-service teachers were of bachelors holders (75.4%) and among the respondents (86.8%) of them had more than 6 years’ teaching experience. There was 58.5% of the respondents agreed that there is a good implementation of preventive measures against communicable diseases and only 18.5% reveal that the implementation was poor. Only 27.2% of the respondents agreed that the school nominate a health supervisor their schools, while 63.6% and 56.5% reveals that their schools implement a proper waste disposal manners and satisfactory catering services for students respectively. Again about the third of the respondents reveal that their schools keep satisfactory pure water supply (39.9%) and clean surrounding environment (36.9%). Among participants except for staff training to which only 18.9% of them reveals that there was a good training of staff to encourage their health information and behavior, most of the respondents have a good and satisfactory perception towards health promotion for students in term of healthy behavior (54.95%), health information gathering (50.9%), care of personal health (62.3%) and collaboration with local health authorities (48.75%).Conclusion:The perception of the teacher and the level of contribution in school health programmes implementation was being moderately satisfied and need to be actively involved in supporting to school health programmes .Recommendations. Our recommendation were: More elaboration with all stakeholders, especially teachers, implementation progress AND here is a need to develop better plans to recognize the magnitude of coverage of health topics in the curriculum at schools.
Authors and Affiliations
AbdulelahF. Almalki, Abuobaida E. E. Abukhelaif, Ahmad S. Alzahrani, Ahmad Saad Alomari, AbdulkareemAbdulllah Alghamdi
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