Evaluation of Teachers Awareness Regarding Common Behavioral Problems among School Age Children in Shendi Town (Ashagalwa Village)

Abstract

Background: One of the most challenging aspects of teaching is dealing with students' behavioral issues because they interfere with lessons and produce an unsuitable learning environment. All students have a variety of emotional and personal struggles when they first enter school, which can make their behavior undesirable and challenging to change. Objectives: The main goal of this study to evaluate teachers awareness regarding common behavioral problems among school age children. Methods: Descriptive cross sectional community based study done to assess teachers awareness regarding Common behavioral Problems among school age Children in Al shaqalwa village during period extended from November to June 2022 , the enrolled (52) teachers through multi stage simple random sampling ,questionnaire use for data collection composed of (23) questions finally the data was analyzed by statistical package for social science (SPSS) version (21) then the data was represented in form tables and figures. Results: The result of the present study showed that more than half (55.8%) of study group had poor knowledge about behavioral Problems only (11.5%) of study group had good knowledge about the causes of behavioral Problems and (28.8%) of them had fair knowledge about the causes of behavioral Problems inside the School. Conclusion: The study concluded that studied teachers awareness regarding common behavior problems in (55.8%) was poor also (17%) fair about causes of behavioral problem and only (7.7%) had was good awareness regarding dealing with difficult behavior.