Health Of High School Students Research Articles

Youth Are the Experts! Youth Participatory Action Research to Address the Adolescent Mental Health Crisis.

Adolescent mental health is an urgent global public health issue. Youth participatory action research is an effective strategy to amplify youth voices and can serve as a catalyst for evidence-based action addressing the mental health crisis. To illustrate the benefits of youth participatory action research for informing community health, we describe an ongoing collaboration with a youth council located in the central coast of California, USA. Research methods included an anonymous online self-report survey to gather information about the mental health of high school students in 2020 (n = 176) and 2022 (n = 234), 93% Latinx/Mexican American. Both surveys included a four-item patient health questionnaire to screen for depression and anxiety risk, in addition to scaled and open-ended survey questions selected by the youth leaders based on their research questions. Quantitative and qualitative results indicated a significant but small decrease in mental health risk, and a continued need for resources to access mental health support. Results led to community-based action aimed at improving local youth mental health. The interdisciplinary research team (psychology and public health) and youth leaders share reflections highlighting the innovative, empowering, and transformative impact of youth participatory action research as a tool for improving community health.

The Role of the Community Basketball Program on the Cultivation of Physical Fitness and Psychosocial Well-Being of High School Students in Selected Middle Schools

This study aims to explore the impact of community basketball programs on the physical and mental health of high school students in Panyu Middle School and Zhongyuan Middle School in Guangzhou. Fills a research gap in the existing literature by providing insights into the relationship between high school students' participation in community basketball programs and their physical, mental, and emotional health. The research covers major variables such as physical fitness level and psychosocial health of high school students, and determines the direction and goals of the research through a series of specific questions and hypotheses. Specifically, the study will investigate high school students' physical health indicators such as aerobic endurance, strength, flexibility, speed, and coordination, as well as social and psychological health indicators such as achievement motivation, social skills, self-awareness, and moral development. The study will use quantitative research methods, collect data through questionnaires, and cover high school students from Panyu Middle School in Guangzhou and Zhongyuan Middle School in Guangzhou to ensure representation and diversity. It also gives opinions on the physical health and mental health of high school students. Through an in-depth discussion of the impact of physical activities on the physical and mental health of adolescents, this study is expected to provide useful insights and suggestions for physical education and community basketball projects.

The Implementation of the K-Medoid Clustering for Grouping Hearing Loss Function on Excessive Smartphone Use

During the current pandemic, smartphones have become a means of learning for all students in Indonesia, including high school students. Students use smartphones to send assignments, learn via video calls, and conduct online exams. The prolonged use of smartphones, from the beginning of learning hours in the morning to study hours in the evening, has a terrible impact on the ear health of high school students in Padang. Excessive smartphone use caused a decrease in the student's hearing function. Therefore, this study aims to group the audiometry results of high school students in Padang who have a hearing loss function. The audiogram result is only performed as the result of a frequency test of the subject's hearing in both the left and right ear. Conventionally, an otolaryngologist concluded the final decision of hearing loss ability. This research proposed an automatic classification of audiometry results using machine learning methods. The K-Medoids clustering was selected to classify the audiometry data in this research. Of 210 audiometry data, 91 data is confirmed by an otolaryngologist as valid data. By using the K-Medoids clustering, 93 data is classified into Normal hearing, Mild Hearing loss, and Moderate Hearing loss. The proposed model successfully grouped the audiometry data into three categories. The confusion matrix is applied to measure the model performance, which has 28,3% accuracy, 64,3% precision, and 21,4% recall. 

The Implementation of the K-Medoid Clustering for Grouping Hearing Loss Function on Excessive Smartphone Use

During the current pandemic, smartphones have become a means of learning for all students in Indonesia, including high school students. Students use smartphones to send assignments, learn via video calls, and conduct online exams. The prolonged use of smartphones, from the beginning of learning hours in the morning to study hours in the evening, has a terrible impact on the ear health of high school students in Padang. Excessive smartphone use caused a decrease in the student's hearing function. Therefore, this study aims to group the audiometry results of high school students in Padang who have a hearing loss function. The audiogram result is only performed as the result of a frequency test of the subject's hearing in both the left and right ear. Conventionally, an otolaryngologist concluded the final decision of hearing loss ability. This research proposed an automatic classification of audiometry results using machine learning methods. The K-Medoids clustering was selected to classify the audiometry data in this research. Of 210 audiometry data, 91 data is confirmed by an otolaryngologist as valid data. By using the K-Medoids clustering, 93 data is classified into Normal hearing, Mild Hearing loss, and Moderate Hearing loss. The proposed model successfully grouped the audiometry data into three categories. The confusion matrix is applied to measure the model performance, which has 28,3% accuracy, 64,3% precision, and 21,4% recall. 

A Sense of Belonging and Help Seeking: Examining Factors Related to the Mental Health of High School Students with High Autistic Traits without Diagnosis.

Certain individuals are clinically undiagnosed for Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) but exhibit strong ASD characteristics. This study examined the differences between a control group and a "high autistic traits" group involving individuals who scored 9 or higher on the Autism-Spectrum Quotient-16 Japanese Version, based on their sense of belonging, help-seeking style, and relationship with mental health. The participants were 608 Japanese public high school students. Of them, 129 (21.2%) and 479 (78.8%) were in the high autistic traits and control groups, respectively. A multiple regression analysis was performed using the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) as the dependent variable for the groups. The analysis revealed no differences between the two groups regarding grade, gender, physical illness, insomnia, or mental health status; however, they differed regarding avoidant help-seeking style and teacher acceptance. Moreover, avoidant help-seeking scores in the high autistic traits group and teacher acceptance showed a significantly positive and significantly negative association with GHQ, respectively. The results indicated that children with autistic traits internally suppress them, experiencing distress. Teachers are aware that these students seek support from them, but the students seem reluctant to ask them for help. This can negatively impact the mental health of children with high autistic traits.

Tiger Parenting and its Influence on American High School Students

This paper explores the impact of Tiger Parenting on the academic performance and mental health of high school students. First, we will define what Tiger Parenting is and how it fits into the conventional parenting style categories. Then, the research findings related to the development of the Tiger Parenting style will be discussed. The results were unexpected. Contrary to what the West portrays, Tiger Parenting is actually not an authoritarian parenting style. Moreover, it does not work with any family in non-Asian cultures due to cultural reasons.

Writing Poetry: A Coping Mechanism for the Mental Health of High School Students

With the recent pandemic of Covid-19 sweeping through the United States, it has been proven that its impact has negatively affected individuals’ mental health. Recent research has shown that adolescents, specifically high school students, are particularly mentally impacted by social isolation experienced due to remote learning, fear of contracting the virus, and other factors. As a teenager, I too noticed a negative decline in my mental health and naturally fell into writing poetry as a way to cope with everything I was experiencing during remote learning. This newfound coping mechanism piqued my interest and I began to wonder if other high school students would also benefit from writing poetry. This thus led to my research question which is “What is the impact of writing poetry when used by high school students as a coping mechanism in support of mental health?” Poetry therapy is used as treatment for different reasons by psychologists as it provides neuroscientific perspectives, flexible treatments, and many more beneficial aspects. The methodology that I determined best fit my research was an experimental pre-post study. In this study, participants wrote a minimum five-line poem per day over a three-week period in addition to completing four surveys: a mental health questionnaire, two poetry perception surveys, and a daily survey. In terms of future research, medical professionals who have experience with poetry therapy can refine this coping mechanism of writing poetry to then recommend it to patients to engage with in their own time outside of counseling sessions.

Metal Health of High School Students Belonging to Dalit Community in Relation to their Parental Guidance in Hooghly District

The mental health is an important part of growing life. In the daily life dalit students of high school are facing their various problems of regular activities. As a result of which they are getting depressed and are unable to adjust themselves with different environments. The study focused on mental health of high school students in relation to their parental guidance. The sample has 60 dalit students in each 30 boys and 30 girls were selected. The study adapted a quantitative approach to collect data through a survey questionnaire. The data were analyzed by Mean, SD, t test and correlation in manually. The findings revealed that from the perspective of mental health and parental guidance, boys are better than girls and in the same way a positive correlation exists between mental health and parental guidance.

The use of interactive training in physical culture in the process of forming the health-saving competence of high school students

The issue of the importance of interactive physical education in the process of forming the health-preserving competence of high school students is highlighted. It was found that the main forms of physical education in institutions of general secondary education are physical culture lessons aimed at the development of health-preserving competence, sustainable motivation to engage in physical exercises, increasing the level of motor activity, forming motor abilities and skills, expanding the functional capabilities of the students' body through purposeful development of natural abilities, involvement in physical culture and health activities. The expediency of conducting interactive physical education lessons in high school, aimed at the development of health-preserving competence, sustainable motivation of students to engage in physical education and sports, and other types of physical education and sports training aimed at increasing the level of motor activity, improving life the necessary abilities and skills, the ability to use them in educational and everyday activities, the expansion of the functional capabilities of the students' body through the purposeful development of natural abilities, basic physical qualities, involvement in physical culture and health activities. The method of forming health-preserving competence in the process of interactive physical education based on the implementation of active methods, means and forms of organizing physical exercises, in particular those that involve the direct involvement of students in the educational process, has been substantiated and developed. The effectiveness of interactive training in physical education was confirmed by the reliable positive dynamics of indicators of motivation, motor readiness and somatic health in high school students.

Safety of digital learning environment for the health of high school and university students in distance learning

The development of technologies using the electromagnetic field (EMF) of the radio frequency range has become a leading trend related to the need for wireless data transmission. This made it possible for distance learning of schoolchildren and students in a dangerous epidemic situation. Accumulated data on the sensitivity of the human body to the action of EMF. The purpose of the work is to assess the conditions of teaching schoolchildren in computer science classrooms, as well as the impact of online learning on the health of high school students and university students. Based on the results of an online survey of schoolchildren and students according to the author’s questionnaire, a database was formed and an assessment of the conditions of distance learning was carried out. With the use of instrumental research, an assessment of the learning conditions in computer science classrooms was carried out. The materials were processed using the reliability criterion χ2 and the health risk assessment RR. Control data in computer science classrooms showed non-compliance of temperature, air humidity, air ionization, illumination, noise with regulatory requirements, except for EMF levels. With online learning, a high duration of stay of high school students and students in a digital environment has been established, including the learning process, homework, and leisure time on the Internet. In the structure of complaints related to studying online and doing homework, there were: visual impairment over the past year, headaches, back pain, irritability, eye fatigue, a feeling of dryness in the eyes. The time for sleep and physical activity decreased. Data have been obtained confirming the need to protect the health of students in a digital environment with the provision of safe conditions for visual work, limiting the time of use of digital devices, increasing the literacy of all users.

Category characteristics of high school students' sense of hope and its relationship with mental health.

This study used the latent profile analysis technique to investigate the latent categories of high school students' sense of hope and their relationship with mental health. A total of 1,513 high school students from six middle schools in China was tested using the Adult Dispositional Hope Scale and the Symptom Checklist 90. Analysis of variance was used to explore the relationship between latent categories of sense of hope and mental health. High school students' sense of hope scores are negatively associated with mental health scores. The high school students' sense of hope could be divided into three latent categories: negative sense of hope group, moderate sense of hope group and positive sense of hope group. The differences in scores on each dimension of mental health among high school students with different latent categories of sense of hope were statistically significant. The positive sense of hope group had lower scores on the dimensions of somatization, compulsive symptoms, interpersonal sensitivity, depression, anxiety, hostility, terror, paranoia, and psychosis than the negative sense of hope group and the moderate sense of hope group. There are three latent categories of high school students' sense of hope, and the sense of hope category is closely related to mental health. Based on the different categories of high school students' sense of hope, the program of mental health education can be reasonably selected to create a positive general environment for mental health education and ultimately enhance the mental health of high school students.

Association Between Gender Minority Status and Mental Health in High School Students

PurposeAdolescence is a phase when young people begin to explore their gender identity. Adolescents who identify as a gender minority are vulnerable to experiencing mental health problems due to stigmatization of their identity. MethodsA population-wide study compared gender minority and cisgender students (aged 13–14 years) self-reported symptoms of probable depression, anxiety, and conduct disorder, and auditory hallucinations, including the distress and frequency of hallucinations. ResultsGender minority students compared to cisgender students had four times the odds of reporting a probable depressive disorder, anxiety disorder, auditory hallucinations, but not conduct disorder. Of those who reported a hallucination, gender minority students were more likely to report hearing them daily but were no more likely to find them distressing. DiscussionGender minority students experience a disproportionate burden of mental health problems. Services and programming should be adapted to better support gender minority high-school students.

Research on the Influence of Latin Dance on the Health-related Physical Fitness of High School Students

As an important force to promote social development, high school students are an indispensable part of today's society. Therefore, the physical quality of contemporary high school students is concerned by the society. This paper will take the high school students who participate in Latin dance training as the research object, expound the origin and function of Latin dance, and put forward that Latin dance has a promoting effect on health and fitness, aiming to provide a basis for guiding scientific fitness, and analyze the influence and function of Latin dance training on the physical health of high school students, so as to strengthen the effectiveness of Latin dance training for high school students.

The Impact on Mental Health of High School Students During The Pandemic; A Case Study

The Impact on Mental Health of High School Students During The Pandemic; A Case Study

Integrating Mindfulness into the Subject of Physical Education-An Opportunity for the Development of Students' Mental Health.

Stress, uncertainty, and the abuse of technologies are components that have a negative impact on the physical, social, and psychological health of young people. One of the aims of the Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) is to empower individuals to reflect on their actions, and mindfulness arises as one tool with an important potential to contribute on this matter. Therefore, the objective of this study was to assess the effects of mindfulness practices on the ability of students to focus their attention on external, internal or kinesthetic factors, awareness in acting, and acceptance. Consequently, a quasi-experimental study was developed to compare groups between the pre and post condition. The study participants were a total of 127 students (52 women) from 4th year of secondary school and 1st year of a achelor's degree (16.5 ± 1.5 years). The sample was assigned by academic convenience, with 54 students in the experimental group and 73 in the control group. The intervention was carried out for 4 weeks. During this period, the experimental group participated in mindfulness activities such as guided meditations at the end of the PE session or challenges that stimulated the student in daily actions. The control group continued with the planned programming in physical education class. These groups were subjected to the following test: (1) Mindfulness for School Scale (MSS) and (2) Child and Adolescent Mindfulness Measure (CAMM). To analyze the results, the normality of the sample was evaluated through the Mann-Whitney U test, resulting as non-parametric. The search for possible differences between the groups was carried out by using the Wilcoxon test. The statistics showed that the experimental group presented significant improvements (p ≤ 0.05) in most of the measured parameters: external attention, kinesthetics attention, and mean of the CAMM. These results seem to show that the use of mindfulness could be an appropriate tool to be implemented in the school context in order to directly contribute to the mental health of high school students, and thus to an education for the sustainable development.

Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic and Lockdown on the Academic Performance and Mental Health of High School Students

The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 is to blame for the COVID-19 pandemic in India, which is a component of the global coronavirus disease pandemic of 2019. (SARS-CoV-2).World wide school closures area result of COVID-19. Online learning has been demonstrated to improve retention of information and require less time, according to research, suggesting that the alterations brought on by the coronavirus may be long-lasting. Numerous sensitivity factors, such as developmental stage, educational attainment, pre-existing mental health condition, socio economic disadvantage, or confine ment due to infection or fear of infection, influence the kind and scope of an impact on minors. According to reports, children may continue to suffer more severe long-term negative effects from this epidemic than adults. With the help of this initiative, we will be able to identify the precise issues that the school-going pupils dealt with during the lockdown and how it affected their mental health. The purpose of this study was to discover and evaluate the psychological, social, personal effects of COVID-19 on students’ academic performance and mental health during the pandemiclockdown.

An Empirical Study on the Relationship among Mental Health, Learning Engagement, and Academic Self-Efficacy of Senior High School Students.

This study examines the mediating role of the academic self-efficacy of high school students in Tibetan and Qiang areas of China on the relationship between their mental health and learning engagement, as well as their gender and grade-specific differences in mental health, learning engagement, and academic self-efficacy. The authors drew 600 valid samples in Tibetan and Qiang areas of China, built a measurement model and a structure model, established a structural equation model comprising the mental health scale, the learning engagement scale, and the academic self-efficacy scale, and conducted an independent sample t-tests and a one-way analysis of variance. The questionnaires took the form of the 5-point Likert scale. This research shows that the mental health of high school students in Tibetan and Qiang areas of China has a significant positive impact on their learning engagement and academic self-efficacy and that their academic self-efficacy has a significant positive impact on their learning engagement. Academic self-efficacy produces an overwhelming mediating effect on the ways mental health influences learning engagement. High school students, male and female, in Tibetan and Qiang areas of China show no marked gender-specific differences in mental health, learning engagement, and academic self-efficacy, while junior high school students show marked grade-specific differences in mental health, and senior high school students show marked grade-specific differences in learning engagement and academic self-efficacy. This article concludes that improving the academic self-efficacy of high school students in Tibetan and Qiang areas of China can boost their learning engagement.

How does growth mindset affect mental health of high school students during the COVID-19 epidemic? The role of grit and coping strategies.

BackgroundThe outbreak of COVID-19 epidemic continues to unfold globally, which harms the public’s mental health. Adolescents’ mental health is affected by social isolation and lockdown during the COVID-19 epidemic. The implicit theory of thoughts-emotion-behavior states that individuals with a growth mindset believe that thoughts, emotions, and behaviors can be changed through effort and tend to persist in pursuing higher goals and maintain enthusiasm as well as cope with stress resiliently, thus having higher gritty and levels of mental health. This study aimed to explore the role of grit and coping strategies in the influence of the growth mindset on adolescents’ mental health during the COVID-19 epidemic period.MethodsA total of 1564 participants (Mage = 17.02, 760 boys, 804 girls) from three high schools in China were recruited to complete The Self-report Questionnaire-20, The Growth Mindset Scale, The Short Grit Scale, and The Coping Style Scale to evaluate mental health, growth mindset, grit, and positive coping strategies, respectively.ResultsThe results showed that growth mindset has no significant indirect effect on mental health through grit but has a significant indirect effect on mental health through coping strategies. The results of chain mediation analysis showed that grit and coping strategies play chain mediating roles between growth mindset and adolescents’ mental health.ConclusionThe findings suggest that cultivating a growth mindset, developing grit, and teaching adolescents to adopt positive coping strategies can improve adolescents’ mental health.

Mental health burden of high school students, and suggestions for psychosocial support, 1.5 years into the COVID-19 pandemic in Austria

The COVID-19 pandemic and containment efforts seem to be particularly challenging for adolescents. This study assessed mental health in high school students 1.5 years after the pandemic began in Austria. A cross-sectional survey was carried out from September to November 2021. Well-being (WHO-5), depressive symptoms, anxiety symptoms and sleep quality were assessed. A total of 1505 adolescents participated (78% girls). The cut-offs for clinically relevant symptoms were exceeded by 62% girls and 38.1% boys for depression (PHQ-9 score ≥ 11), 49% girls and 29% boys for anxiety (GAD-7 score ≥ 11) and 28% girls and 17% boys for insomnia (ISI score ≥ 15). The prevalence of suicidal ideation (item 9 of the PHQ-9) within the last 2 weeks was 47% in girls and 32% in boys. These data collected in autumn 2021 (the start of the second semester of reopened schools; t2) were compared to data collected in February 2021 (one semester after remote schooling; t1). A matched pairs analysis according to age, gender, region, school type and migration background resulted in a total sample size of N = 2514 adolescents. Results showed small deteriorations in mental health (i.e., well-being, depression, insomnia, suicidal ideation) in girls at t2 compared to t1, and an increase in suicidal thoughts in boys (all p-values < 0.05). Qualitative data show that young people have a need for more psychological support, both professional and informal, as well as increased mental health literacy. Results suggest that mental health burden in adolescents remains high 1.5 years into the pandemic and highlight the need to implement timely psychological support.

Core self-evaluation, mental health and mobile phone dependence in Chinese high school students: why should we care

BackgroundMobile phone dependence is a common problem in the population of high school students. We aimed to evaluate the core self-evaluation, mental health and mobile phone dependence in Chinese high school students, to provide reliable evidence to the support of high school students.MethodsWe conducted a survey of high school students in Xiamen, China. The self-assessment questionnaire on mobile phone use dependence among teenagers (SQAPMPU), Mental Health Scale for Middle School Students (MSSMHS) and Core self-evaluation scale were used to evaluate the mobile phone dependence, mental health and core self-evaluation. t-tests, Pearson correlation and multiple linear stepwise regression analyses were conducted to analyze the potential relationships.ResultsA total of 1692 students were enrolled. The total score of mobile phone dependence of students in grades 10–12 was higher than that of students in grades 7–9. A total of 329 students in grades 7–9 and 371 students in grades 10–12 had abnormal mental status. The detection rate of psychological abnormalities among students in grades 10–12 was higher than that of students in grades 10–12. Core self-evaluation had significantly negative correlation with various factors of mental health (P < 0.01). The worse the mental health, the higher the degree of mobile phone dependence, core self-evaluation played a mediating role between mental health and mobile phone dependence (8.03%).ConclusionsCore self-evaluation is an important factor affecting the mental health of high school students and mobile phone dependence. Educators should strengthen core self-evaluation of high school students to improve the mental health and reduce the mobile phone dependence.