TO IDENTIFY THE FACTORS OF MALAY STUDENTS INVOLVED IN HYSTERIA BY USING DASS21, DRAWING TEST AND IN-DEPTH INTERVIEW

Abstract

The prevalence of mental illness is significant and increasing in Malaysia. 37% of all impairments in Malaysia are mental health-related. Hysteria is considered to be a symptom of emotional distress and a mental illness that frequently affects teenage girls. In colleges, it frequently takes place in class. Hysteria frequently begins with one student and quickly expands to up to 20–50 additional students. Spontaneous shouting, writhing, uncontrollable weeping, babbling, and bodily immobility are some of its peculiar symptoms. They became hysterical for a number of reasons. Psychological factors, family background, culture, and religion all had an influence on the mass hysteria incidents that happened in Kelantan schoolchildren because the respondents came from typical, underdeveloped traditional states. A qualitative approach, psychological tests like dass 21, drawing test and triangulation method were used for this study. The hysteria students were selected from secondary school age 13 until 17. The findings of the study may guide health workers in Kelantan to manage victims of mass hysteria appropriately and to diagnose the episodes timely. Mass hysteria in the Kelantan context is better understood, teachers can be empowered through health education to enable them to identify mass hysteria outbreaks in schools early, manage victims and observers more effectively and refer victims to health workers for treatment.