The effect of life skills education on children’s mental health of family-like centers of well-being organization

Document Type : Research Paper

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1 Assistant professor of Vali-e-Asr University of Rafsanjan, Iran

2 MSc. in consultation, Islamic Azad University, Tehran Research and Science Department, Iran

Abstract

Introduction: Education of life skills will promote socio-psychological abilities and help individuals cope effectively with challenges and situations in life. The present research aims to study the effect of life skills education on the mental health of girls between 14-18 years old in welfare like-family centers of Kerman.
Materials and Methods: Statistical population of this clinical research includes all girls aged between 14-18 years in welfare like-family centers in the academic year of 2015-2016 (45 cases). Since the continuous presence of children was essential in all educational sessions and only 30 girls could participate in all sessions, all girls were chosen as the sample size. The experimental group learned life skills within 10 ninety minutes sessions. To collect information, Goldberg and Hiller's mental health questionnaire (GHQ-28) was used, and participants completed it before intervention. To analyze data, T-paired test was used, and the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test was applied to study the normalization of the difference in pre-and post-test mental health scores before the T-paired test.
Results: Education of life skills has significantly affected girls' mental health in like-family centers. In addition to the effect of education of life skills on mental health, such education has the most positive effect on signs of anxiety and sleep disorder, and it has the least positive effect on physical signs in significance level of (P<0.05).
Conclusion: Concerning the results, it seems that life skills education significantly affects mental health in girls in like-family centers.

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Journal of Fundamentals of Mental Health
Volume 19, Issue 4
July and August 2017
Pages 435-439

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